Attackers Douse Teacher in Gas as Students Protest Across France
- On Thursday, violent student protests erupted across France, with attackers setting fires at two schools in Marseille and Nantes while blockading buildings.
- Demonstrations began last week over staff shortages and dilapidated buildings, intensifying after the government announced deeply unpopular spending cuts in its 2027 budget on Thursday.
- Attackers doused a headteacher in petrol at Victor Hugo high school, while hundreds of young people surrounded fire trucks in Marseille; students accused police of using heavy-handed teargas tactics.
- Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu held a crisis meeting on Thursday afternoon regarding the unrest, which has left dozens of people injured and prompted hundreds of arrests.
- Minister Edouard Geffray urged schools to hold classes remotely, stating, "Violence will not keep our students from their fundamental right to an education.
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Attackers douse teacher in gas as students protest across France
Attackers doused a headteacher in petrol and started fires in at least two schools on Thursday, officials said, as increasingly violent student protests raged across France against staff shortages and dilapidated buildings.
Over 600 arrests throughout the country, injured two other school leaders. Summit in Paris, cancelled all Ministers' travels (ANSA)
French students and students are dissatisfied with the overcrowded classes, school conditions, low-quality teaching materials and lack of teachers, among others. Several attackers sprinkled a high school director with gasoline and caused fires in at least two schools on Thursday, officials in France said, on the basis of recent demonstrations in ...
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