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Proof: Hundreds of schools to shut Monday as France braces for more student protests

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-04T20:33:01Z","headline":"Hundreds of schools to shut Monday as France braces for more student protests","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"france24","url":"https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261004-up-to-500-french-schools-to-be-totally-or-partly-closed-monday-due-to-protests","v":1}

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8e68af214f7ac67423ed2690ae11c36816ce220cbad4852af184a79cd8ef535a

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969899, mined 2026-10-04 20:59 UTC.

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• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-04 17:02 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-8e68af214f7a.json prints 8e68af214f7ac67423ed2690ae11c36816ce220cbad4852af184a79cd8ef535a. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-8e68af214f7a.json and headline-8e68af214f7a.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-8e68af214f7a.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 4 min after it was first seen.