Injuries and arrests as French high school student protests spread
The unrest has injured 119 students and staff and prompted consultations as officials blame far-left groups for fueling violence.
- 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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More than 600 young people have been arrested in protests in front of the French institutes, which have caused harsh clashes with the police throughout the country and have led to...
The new appeal to the mobilization of young people, which yesterday concerned 350 schools in the country, also extends today to universities, as at Saint-Denis campus of the Paris VIII University, blocked by this morning. In Nantes, the Oltralp media report, Nelson Mandela high school was struck by a fire, on the sidelines of the mobilization of young people who claim more means for education. Public transport and law enforcement are currently o…
Le Pen argued that Mélenchon would have personally gone to institutes to address young people and that members of their training would have participated in the mobilizations.
Protests by students in France are growing: some of the protesters have set fire to a high school in Nantes. In the pictures filmed on Thursday at the Mandela High School in Nantes, there is a huge flame spreading across the front of the building.
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