Gabrielle Fahmy

“everybody with a grievance”

Gabrielle Fahmy · said 2026-10-27 · reported 2026-10-27

Fahmy noted seeing Palestinian flags and that people with various grievances had joined the demonstrations.

“All of a sudden, it exploded,”

Gabrielle Fahmy · said 2026-10-27 · reported 2026-10-27

Fahmy recalled on Fox & Friends how a peaceful march of over 100,000 people in Paris suddenly turned violent.

“factions of the far-left.”

Gabrielle Fahmy · said 2026-10-27 · reported 2026-10-27

Fahmy suggested some of the younger masked newcomers might have been from far-left factions.

“When it got dark, when they reached the endpoint of the march, it's like they didn't know what to do anymore,”

Gabrielle Fahmy · said 2026-10-27 · reported 2026-10-27

Fahmy described how the crowd's behavior changed once the peaceful march reached its endpoint after dark.

“There's not enough jobs, they're not making enough money, they can't afford to put food on the table. But also anti-government, they are fed up with Emmanuel Macron, who's on his way out anyway. But, it was just a very general, general reason.”

Gabrielle Fahmy · said 2026-10-27 · reported 2026-10-27

Fahmy described protesters' frustrations over jobs, wages, food costs, and opposition to President Emmanuel Macron.

“Tensions had been mounting. These new people I saw sort of joined the protest towards the end. We saw some people arrive by metro. They were dressed differently, hiding their faces. They had masks, and that's sort of when I could see things start to shift.”

Gabrielle Fahmy · said 2026-10-27 · reported 2026-10-27

Fahmy described how masked newcomers arriving by metro shifted the protest atmosphere toward violence.

“The people there on Saturday, it was a general sort of cost of living that they were complaining about,”

Gabrielle Fahmy · said 2026-10-27 · reported 2026-10-27

Fahmy recalled that Saturday's protesters were broadly complaining about the cost of living.