By Marco Hugo Barsotti MHB 
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Clashes on the Promenade des Anglais
Wednesday, September 30, a group of students from Magnan high school marched along the famous Promenade des Anglais, heading towards the city centre. The march, initially peaceful, turned tense when the youngsters encountered police cars on the route, parked in front of the Avia kiosk.
The students, agitated, began throwing stones gathered on the beach at the vehicles, prompting the intervention of the CRS, who approached from the west. Police attempted to disperse the crowd, but the students kept resisting. Faced with the growing risk of escalation, the CRS used tear‑gas canisters, forcing the high‑schoolers to withdraw from the site.
Comment from Mayor Eric Ciotti
Here is where violence leads.
Shots of pyrotechnic mortars. A vegetation fire. Two police officers injured. A passerby assaulted. All this on the sidelines of a mobilisation of students from the Parc Impérial high school.
These are not claims. They are acts of violence.
All my support to the victims. Our high schools will never be theatres of clash.
Rachel’s Editorial – When the protest becomes a special‑effects show
The Magnan students, armed with stones, turned the Promenade des Anglais into a battlefield of “stone‑cannons”. Ah, the sweet melody of floating projectiles in the faces of the guards, a symphony of “we are justice, you are tyrants”. And the CRS? There, ready to respond with clouds of tear‑gas that, it seems, have more “head” effect than “calm”.
Fortunately the mayor of Nice is not from LFI, so he will not be among those who help the students burn trash bins and bicycles as happened yesterday – by a French mayor with an almost foreign‑sounding name.
Koan of the day
Monk: Master, how does one extinguish the fire of anger without setting another tree of hope ablaze?
Master: It is extinguished by keeping the hand over the fire without touching it, and laughing at the heat, because the true blaze is the shadow of fear that follows us.
That is all for now. From the Paris editorial office this is Rachel Costa: this is am1575news, France24 and Radio Centrale Milano.