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Violent clashes in Marseille this Thursday between high school students and law enforcement. REUTERS / Jean-Paul Pelissier
About 200 high schools and colleges in France were again blocked or disrupted Thursday by students and several incidents were identified, leading in particular to mass arrests in the Paris region. The high school unions called for maintaining the pressure and intensifying the movement with a " general mobilization " before demonstrations on Friday.
In the Yvelines, 148 people were arrested in front of a high school in Mantes-la-Jolie for " participation in an armed crowd " after clashes and degradations, said the city commissioner, ensuring wanting to " interrupt an uncontrolled process ." These arrests took place after new incidents near the Saint-Exupéry high school, where two cars were burned Thursday and clashes broke out with the police.
In the Hauts-de-Seine, 35 people were placed in custody after skirmishes in front of high schools. In Seine-Saint-Denis, the situation was tense in the morning in front of several establishments. In the Val-de-Marne, about 150 young people, some of whom wore yellow vests, gathered in front of the polyvalent high school in Cachan.
" Under the pretext of" yellow vests ", we see arise all kinds of individuals who mingle with people who are in good faith to demonstrate, like high school students, and this leads to serious violence ," responded in the morning the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer.
Several unions (FO, Sgen-CFDT) or the federation of parents of CIPF students ask the minister to " hear " the demands expressed by high school students, who call in particular for the abandonment of the reforms of the baccalaureate, vocational or access to the university.
At high school Jacques-Monod, Orleans, where a student was seriously injured by a shotgun blast on Wednesday, the headmaster had called the students to " do not join the high school Thursday and Friday ." Tensions were noted in Grenoble and its agglomeration, as well as Annecy, and the police proceeded to arrests. The blockades continued in Toulouse and a demonstration was punctuated by violence: two policemen were wounded and a journalist " jostled ", said the prefecture of Haute-Garonne.
A student was injured in Béziers (Hérault). Some incidents occurred in the academy of Strasbourg with firecrackers and fumigants thrown in places, as well as in Mulhouse. Some 900 high school students demonstrated in the streets of Clermont-Ferrand, according to the police. Demonstrations that led to clashes with the police in front of several establishments in the city. In Bordeaux, six minors arrested are still in custody. In Marseille, about twenty establishments were affected, with " blockages more or less filtering ", according to the rectorate.
The mobilization has spread to a few universities, including Tolbiac (Paris 1) or Paris 3-Censier. Around 2,000 people, most of them students, demonstrated in Paris, protesting against the increase in registration fees for foreigners outside the European Union, recently announced by the government.