Tear gas in Paris and Marseille as school protests grow across France

One police officer who fired a tear-gas grenade at a high school student at Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, north-west of Paris, last week has now been charged by prosecutors with "violence...

The protests began in mid-September but have spread to high schools across France There is widespread concern over allegations of "disproportionate force" by police, and France's IGPN police inspectorate has been investigating a number of cases.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across France, as a wave of protests by high-school pupils spread to their parents, university students and unions.