University students air frustration that sit-ins motivated by peace are being shut down instead of heeded
Jack, 22, a student in public administration, was dragged out of his university building by the arms and legs on Friday, as police forcibly removed several dozen students who had been occupying Paris’s Sciences Po university overnight in a protest against civilian deaths in Gaza.
“We’ll keep going,” said the French-American student in his final year at the prestigious political science school, whose alumni include the president, Emmanuel Macron. “This is about speaking out against a genocide, it’s an international movement. We occupied the building peacefully.”
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/03/were-infantilised-or-demonised-french-students-criticise-gaza-protests-crackdown
Author : Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Publish date : 2024-05-03 16:25:14
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