Trump, Waltz link France riots to mass immigration as thousands are arrested
Fox News · Efrat Lachter · October 6, 2026 · foxnews.com Read the articlePartly corroborated
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Check started on October 7, 2026
Claims
7 examined"What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!" Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday.
The Express Tribune (6 October 2026, from agency reports) and Anews (6 October 2026) report the same Truth Social post by Trump blaming the French unrest on mass migration and Islam.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz told Fox News Digital that open borders and unchecked immigration, coupled with energy and spending policies, produce "a level of frustration boiling to the surface".
The statement was given exclusively to the publisher and no other source consulted reports it.
France’s Interior Ministry said 6,100 people had been arrested, the overwhelming majority of them minors.
The Express Tribune (6 October 2026) and Al Jazeera (6 October 2026) both report 6,100 arrests since the protests began, mostly of minors.
Lecornu told lawmakers that at least 215 teenagers and 85 school staff members have been injured, while his office said more than 700 police officers have also been hurt; he described the clashes as the school system’s "heaviest toll in decades".
The Express Tribune (6 October 2026) reports 215 teenagers and 85 school staff injured, more than 700 officers hurt and Lecornu's "heaviest toll in decades" remark; Al Jazeera (6 October 2026) gives 715 police injured.
More than half of France’s roughly 3,700 high schools were blockaded or expected to close Tuesday, according to the High School Students Union.
Al Jazeera (6 October 2026) reports the union's figure of nearly 2,000 high schools blockaded or closed, and The Express Tribune (6 October 2026) says over half were blockaded.
The Paris police said the clashes there had come about when some 300 people attempted to face off against security forces.
The Express Tribune (6 October 2026) reports that about 300 people clashed with security forces in Paris.
Reuters reported last week that French authorities and political opponents have accused France Unbowed (LFI) of stoking the demonstrations; LFI has denied the accusations.
A Reuters report republished by ThePrint (2 October 2026) says intelligence agencies told a crisis meeting that LFI and its far-left proxies organised the protests, and that LFI lawmaker Louis Boyard rejected the claim.
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