French high school protests: Students clash with police as nationwide movement escalates |
French high school protests: Students clash with police as nationwide movement escalates
French high school students clashed with police during nationwide protests over education conditions, with schools disrupted, fires reported and hundreds of institutions affected.
New Delhi: French high school students clashed with police on Friday as protests over education conditions intensified across the country, with demonstrators blocking schools, setting fires and throwing projectiles at security forces.
Police responded with tear gas in several cities as the movement, which began in the Paris region in September, continued to spread nationwide. The protests have involved students in their mid-to-late teens studying at lycees, particularly those in their final years of schooling.
According to France’s education ministry, nearly 400 schools were closed on Friday, while teaching was disrupted at at least 564 of the country’s roughly 3,700........