Police fire teargas as French students, teachers, parents take to streets

Police fired tear gas at protesters outside French high schools on Tuesday as students, teachers and parents took to the streets on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu described as the most violent school protests in decades. The protests, in which a teenager lost a hand on Monday, were the latest manifestation of public anger in a country where the far right and far left are surging ahead of a presidential election in the spring. The government is under pressure to tame public debt amid weak growth, and has struggled with basic tasks such as passing a budget since…