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Cost-of-living protests set to spread to Germany on Halloween as France braces for fresh unrest

Cost-of-living protests that began in France are spreading to Germany with hundreds of thousands of people expected to turn out in cities across the country on Saturday that coincide with Halloween.

CNNPierre P Bairin, Sophie Tanno2026-10-31 12:21查看原文 ↗

万圣节期间，生活成本上涨抗议活动预计将蔓延至德国，法国也严阵以待，准备应对新的动荡。

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Cost-of-living protests that began in France are spreading to Germany with tens of thousands of people expected to turn out across the country on Saturday for demonstrations that coincide with Halloween.

The new German youth-led movement dubbed “Gen Z has got this!” will see people protest against the high cost of living, underfunded schools and universities, environmental concerns and a potential reintroduction of mandatory military service . Protests are planned in major cities including Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne and Munich.

Organizers of ‘Gen Z regelt’ planned the large day of action to coincide with Halloween, to maximize turnout and visibility.

“We are young people who no longer want to watch decisions being made about our future without us,” the movement states on its website. It adds that the intention is to protest peacefully and organizers instruct participants to keep their faces visible, even in Halloween costumes.

Extra German police officers have been deployed nationwide in preparation for the protest, and the luxury shops lining Berlin’s upmarket Kurfürstendamm shopping street have boarded up their windows as a precautionary measure.

The German youth movement follows a broader wave of protests that have swept Europe, including significant unrest in France, which has been hit by rioting and looting and is now facing another weekend of rallies.

The Yellow Vests movement has called for nationwide protests on Saturday, billed as the third act of demonstrations, following earlier protests on October 17 and 24. Students and some unions are also expected to join.

Warning of a “very high risk of public disorder,” France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced this week that demonstrations would only be authorized outside town centers, with 70,000 extra law enforcement officers deployed nationwide.

Halloween is adding a new complication to the protests, with Nuñez warning of separate calls for gatherings across France from 8 p.m. local time “by radical far-left groups and radicalized Yellow Vests.”

He said some messages invoked Halloween while calling for “revolution” and “insurrection”, describing them as incitements to serious public disorder and warning that the gatherings would be banned.

In recent days, the word “purge” has been circulating across social media platforms, a reference to the dystopian film franchise which depicts a world where all crime is legalized for a 12-hour period each year.

“At Halloween, the rules remain the same!” warned the Paris police on X, reminding people that concealing one’s face in public is punishable by a €150 ($170) fine, while carrying a weapon, even a fake one, can carry a sentence of up to three years in prison and a €45,000 fine.

The French protests began in late September, led by high school students demanding improvements to deteriorating school buildings, teacher shortages and a lack of resources, as well as changes to the university admissions system.

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The protests then morphed into something bigger, with the Yellow Vests – which began as a movement against soaring fuel prices – among those taking to the streets.

The images of violence and looting from the October 17 protests are still haunting French officials. That day, more than 550,000 people took to the streets across France, according to the Interior Ministry more than 3,000 shops were attacked or looted, with some destroyed and over 2,700 people were arrested.

The interior minister said more than 1,000 law enforcement officers have been injured since the beginning of the protest movement.

Asked about the students injured during the protests, President Emmanuel Macron described the violence as a “collective failure”.

“I think no high school student started pushing for their demands expecting to suffer such terrible consequences. And I don’t know a single police officer who signed up to find themselves caught up in such terrible and violent moments either,” he told Youtuber Hugo Travers.

Saturday’s demonstration comes ahead of November 5, when all eyes will be on a nationwide strike and mobilization called by the inter-union coalition over rising living costs.

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始于法国的生活成本抗议活动正在蔓延至德国，预计周六将有数万人走上德国各地参加示威活动，而这一天恰逢万圣节。

一场名为“Z世代，我行！”的德国青年运动即将兴起，人们将举行抗议活动，反对高昂的生活成本、学校和大学经费不足、环境问题以及可能恢复的强制兵役制度。抗议活动计划在柏林、法兰克福、科隆和慕尼黑等主要城市举行。

“Z世代行动”的组织者计划将大型行动日定在万圣节当天，以最大限度地提高参与人数和知名度。

“我们是年轻人，我们再也不想眼睁睁地看着关乎我们未来的决定被抛诸脑后，”该运动在其网站上声明。声明还补充说，他们的目的是进行和平抗议，组织者要求参与者即使穿着万圣节服装也要保持面部可见。

为应对抗议活动，德国已在全国范围内增派警力，柏林高档购物街库尔弗斯滕达姆大街上的奢侈品商店也已用木板封住橱窗，以防万一。

德国青年运动响应了席卷欧洲的大规模抗议浪潮，其中包括法国的严重骚乱，法国遭受了暴乱和抢劫，现在又将面临一个周末的集会。

“黄背心”运动呼吁在周六举行全国范围的抗议活动，这被认为是继10月17日和24日抗议活动之后的第三次示威活动。预计学生和一些工会也将参与其中。

法国内政部长洛朗·努涅斯本周宣布，鉴于“公共秩序混乱的风险极高”，示威活动仅允许在城镇中心以外举行，并在全国范围内增派7万名执法人员。

万圣节给抗议活动增添了新的复杂性，努涅斯警告说，激进的极左团体和激进的“黄背心”运动将在当地时间晚上 8 点开始在法国各地举行集会。

他表示，一些信息在呼吁“革命”和“起义”的同时，还提到了万圣节，他称这些信息是在煽动严重的公共骚乱，并警告说集会将被禁止。

近日，“清洗”一词在社交媒体平台上流传开来，指的是一部反乌托邦电影系列，该系列描绘了一个每年有 12 小时所有犯罪行为都合法化的世界。