Injuries and arrests as French high school student protests spread
At least 30 university campuses were blocked as student unions demanded more funding, smaller classes and better conditions, officials and unions said.
- On Wednesday, French security forces detained 625 people as high school blockades and violent clashes escalated across France, affecting 356 schools nationwide, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said.
- Since last week, students aged 15 to 18 have staged protests over teacher shortages, class sizes, and overheated classrooms during this year's heatwaves, citing deteriorating school conditions.
- Violence during Wednesday's protests left 83 police officers and gendarmes wounded, alongside 32 teachers and pupils injured; Education Minister Edouard Geffray reported 119 total injuries since unrest began.
- Speaking from Madrid, President Emmanuel Macron slammed politicians he accused of "legitimising violence," while Interior Minister Nunez alleged "individuals acting as agitators" moved between schools to incite students.
- Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu denounced LFI presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon for calling the response a "crackdown" with "obvious racist undertones," labeling the accusation "an insult.
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French school protests spread as fires, blockades deepen unrest
A protest by French secondary school students over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities deepened on Thursday, with fires set outside schools and blockades in several cities. More than 160 schools were shut down on Thursday, while university students joined the protests in Paris and Marseille. The movement in the lycees, which students aged 15 to 18 attend for their final three years of secondary education in France,…
French high school students set fires, clash with police in anger over school conditions
By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — High school students across France set fires and clashed with police on Wednesday and Thursday, escalating nearly a week of disruption.Some 625 people – mostly young – were detained by police on Wednesday, France’s interior minister Laurent Nunez said, adding that 83 police officers had been injured. Government
Student protests spread to French universities as school blockades and clashes continued.
University faculties have already joined the movement, schools are being closed across the country, and a school principal was doused with gasoline.
Teacher doused in petrol as students set fire to schools in protests raging across France
The demonstrations and blockades, which began last week, have become a political flashpoint at a sensitive moment for the government, which announced a series of deeply unpopular spending cuts.
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