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A car is burning on Tolo Highway in Hong Kong on November 15, 2019. REUTERS / Thomas Peter

This Sunday, November 17 in the morning, Hong Kong was again the scene of clashes between police and protesters blocking a strategic tunnel. The pro-democracy movement calls for blocking operations to continue in order to " strangle the economy " of the former British colony.

This Sunday, November 17 around 10:30 (local), the police fired tear gas canisters to try to disperse the protesters who occupy the Polytechnic University (PolyU), located on the peninsula of Kowloon near the Cross Harbor Tunnel, one of three road tunnels serving the island of Hong Kong. The protesters, for their part, told AFP, fired back by throwing Molotov cocktails at the police.

While at the PolyU premises, saws and drills are at work, tells us our special correspondent in Hong Kong , Stephane Lagarde . Protesters reinforce barricades on access points, while others with binoculars monitor the surroundings from rooftops and concrete walkways. At the entrance, we search the bags ...

A battle of image is played in the university ...

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Since June 2019, Hong Kong, a megacity of 7.5 million people, has been experiencing its worst political crisis since its return to China in 1997, with demonstrations and almost daily actions by the pro-democracy movement. But this challenge intensified a week ago with ongoing blocking operations of universities and outlying districts, in application of a new strategy called "Éclore partout" ("Blossom Everywhere"), which consists in multiplying in order to maximize the capabilities of the police.

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