PoliticsFrench student protests: Police impunity ‘below’ standards of a ‘well-functioning democracy’

Erin Ogunkeye speaks with Sciences Po researcher Antoine Marie about the political psychology of France’s student protests. They discuss how media echo chambers, partisan thinking and politicized empathy deepen polarization, alongside France’s increasingly offensive police doctrine, accountability concerns and institutional barriers to independent investigations of police misconduct.

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