Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: Raphael Kessler / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 3:50 p.m., January 19, 2024

High school students temporarily blocked the entrance to some Parisian high schools on Friday morning to protest against the immigration law.

Around a hundred young people also marched in the streets.

High school students and students temporarily blocked the entrance to some Parisian high schools on Friday morning, before around a hundred of them marched in the streets to protest against the immigration law, two days before a demonstration of magnitude, noted AFP.

According to the Paris rectorate, filter blockages took place in five high schools in the capital: Hélène-Boucher and Maurice-Ravel (20th arrondissement), Voltaire (11th), Victor-Hugo and Simone-Weil (3rd).

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At the Hélène-Boucher high school, 400 high school students gathered according to the Paris police headquarters to block the entrance to their establishment with trash cans, brandishing signs such as "Against the immigration law" or "Immigration law: doors open to 'far right".

“We are here to show that young people do not support this law”

Same situation at the Maurice Ravel high school, nearby, where students had hung banners “OQTF for Darmanin” (OQTF: Obligation to leave French territory, editor’s note) or even “Freedom, equality, even without papers”.

“It’s a law that targets national preference, an abominable law,” Coline, 16, a student at Hélène-Boucher, told AFP.

“We are here to show that young people do not support this law.”

“I have been involved in migrant struggles for a long time, I have been campaigning for five years. What is happening is the + fascistization + of society,” adds Zara, 23, a philosophy student. in Paris 8, who did not want to give his last name.

High school students and students then gathered for an undeclared demonstration in the streets of Paris starting from the Place de la Nation, punctuated by some damage (tags, broken windows), noted an AFP journalist.

The Paris police headquarters noted that around twenty of them had committed some damage and one person was arrested.

The demonstration was dispersed by police intervention.