At the Sorbonne, where several hundred students participated in a general assembly on Wednesday, the building "was still partially occupied" on Thursday, according to the communication department of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Classes are "maintained remotely" until "Saturday April 16 inclusive" and all sites (about ten, including that of Tolbiac) are "closed to students but open to staff", she added.

Students demonstrate in front of the Sorbonne on April 14, 2022 in Paris EMMANUEL DUNAND AFP

Several hundred students (400 according to the police headquarters) gathered at midday on the Place de la Sorbonne, with the aim of participating in a general assembly with the students inside, but were blocked by a CRS cord.

The CRS pushed the students back into the square, causing a crowd movement and throwing tear gas, without causing any injuries.

Inside, a general assembly was held in the afternoon, during which the students "organized themselves for the perspectives to be given" to the movement, Baptiste, a student from Paris 1, told AFP. and activist Unef, present in the premises with "a few hundred" students, according to him.

Police fire tear gas to disperse students gathered outside the Sorbonne on April 14, 2022 in Paris JULIEN DE ROSA AFP

They called in particular for mobilization in the Paris region and for a new rally on Friday at 1 p.m. in front of the Sorbonne, he said.

"False Choice"

At the start of the evening, the atmosphere was very calm on the Place de la Sorbonne, noted an AFP journalist.

A few students were chatting while listening to music, including Mailia, 21, a student at the Sorbonne.

She explained that her comrades inside had "still enough to eat because there was great solidarity. But it's more the medicines that are lacking".

Students demonstrate in front of the Sorbonne on April 14, 2022 in Paris EMMANUEL DUNAND AFP

Since Wednesday, hundreds of students have been mobilizing in Paris, Nancy or Reims, to protest against the result of the first round of the presidential election and to alert on ecological and social issues.

At Sciences Po Paris, some 150 students blocked the entrance to the school at 27 rue Saint-Guillaume (VIIe).

Banners read: "No quarter for fachos, no fachos in our neighborhoods" or "No to the extreme right".

"The courses scheduled for today on this site have been switched to distance learning. The other Sciences Po sites remain open and operate normally," Sciences Po told AFP.

A banner on the facade of the Sorbonne occupied by demonstrators, on April 14, 2022 in Paris EMMANUEL DUNAND AFP

"We are here mainly to fight the far right, because today we are frightened by the percentage of votes Marine Le Pen got in the election," Sarah Bonvalet-Younès told AFP. , President of Unef Sciences Po.

"Young people are faced with a false choice, two options which in both cases are harmful to them", added Baptiste, 22, a 3rd year student union member at Solidaires Sciences Po.

Around 3:30 p.m., 30 to 40 far-right activists armed with "pickaxe handles, umbrellas and hand gassers", attacked the students still present, who ran away uninjured, a- he indicated.

Police officers near the Sorbonne during a student demonstration on April 14, 2022 in Paris EMMANUEL DUNAND AFP

"The blockade of Sciences Po has just been evacuated by us", tweeted later the Cocarde Etudiante, showing in a video young people removing banners and barricades.

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