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Fires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protests
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Fires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protests

Government struggling to deal with worst crisis in months after being taken by surprise by massive demonstrations As dozens of school pupils sat on top of a pile of wheelie bins blocking a high school entrance in north-eastern Paris, Sophia, 17, was on the frontline of the barricade, when she would normally have been attending Spanish class. “We hope this grows into a massive youth protest movement,” said the final year baccalaureate student at Paris’s Lycée Voltaire, who did not want her real name published. She was on her second day of blocking the school entrance along with hundreds of others, ensuring all lessons were cancelled. “We just want to be listened to by the government. We’d rather stand here doing this than have to learn in poor conditions. It’s the only way to make ourselves heard.” Continue reading...

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