France: Tear Gas Against High School Students and Journalists at Le Corbusier d'Aubervilliers High School
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Blockades, fireworks and tear gas: Young protesters are rattling France
SEINE-ST.-DENIS, France — Outside a high school in Seine-St.-Denis, a working-class suburb north of Paris, a crowd of about 100 students milled in the street Thursday afternoon, their shouts echoing through the towering apartment buildings. They were protesting overcrowded classrooms, crumbling facilities and absent teachers.
The reporter of France 24 Pauline Godart tells how the situation deteriorated this morning, 2 October, at Le Corbusier high school in Aubervilliers. While students were blocking the school, tensions rose, with forced grids and clashes with law enforcement forces. Police officers used tear gas, without warning according to several witnesses. High school students and journalists present on site were affected. The situation has since returned to ca…
A week after the start of the school protests in France, numerous testimonies of students about police violence were published, writing Le HuffPost. "I was beaten, strangled, insulted," the victims complain.
by Salvatore Turi Palidda* Lacrimogenes, lethal weapons, arrests of minors and complaints of beatings: while the uprising of the high schools extends, the accusations of brutality against the French police grow. ...
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