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The protests of high school students in France: continuing talks with the Government and the United Nations express concern

Representatives of secondary school students, who were received by the Minister of Education and the Minister of Higher Education, called for the continuation of protests with a large crowd on 13 October. According to the Ministry of Education, Friday, 141 secondary schools remain closed in France because of the participation of a part of the students in the protest, less than 4% of the total 3,700 secondary schools in the country. The United Nations expressed its concern on Friday at the violence in French student protests, the arrest and injuries of thousands of protesters.

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Student protests in France... Are you entering the national escalation phase?

Three weeks after it began from a limited number of secondary schools, student protests in France continue and expand to include universities and professional trade unions, amid the growing debate over the Government ' s engagement with protesters ' demands for education and school services. At a time when the Government is betting on a package of prospective actions to contain the crisis, calls for escalation are increasing and concerns are growing from the expansion of protests to other social sectors. To discuss the dimensions and political and social prospects of this movement, France24 hosts Dr. Hosni Abbidi, Professor of International Relations, University of Geneva.

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Student protests in France... Educational demands and security arguments

In France, protests by high-school students continue in the midst of demands to improve school conditions, in parallel with an escalating debate about the intervention of the security forces. The Minister of the Interior suspended the use of sound bombs during these movements, while Government President Sebastian Lukorno announced five tracks to respond to student demands, with the first decisions to be presented at the end of October.

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Student protests in France: over 6500 persons arrested... Who are they?

As the protest movement led by several high-school students in France has continued for about two weeks, and with the high number of arrests exceeding 6500 on the backdrop of demonstrations and the closure of the entrances of several educational institutions and riots next to them, Franç24 highlights through this paper the identity, age and charges against detainees.

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Student protests in France... Does the government manage to contain the escalation?

Student protests in France continue for the second week, respectively, as trade union mobilization escalates and demonstrations expand in a number of French cities. In an effort to contain growing anger, the political street and the student are expecting a letter from the head of Government, Sebastian Lukorno, at a time when the authorities announced the suspension of the use of sound bombs after accusations by the police of excessive violence against protesters. To what extent can such recent governmental rhetoric and actions contribute to calming the crisis, or may they push for further political polarization and escalation on the street? With the hardest Hamodi, Professor of Political Science.

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Student protests in France... Between the right to pretend and the limits of the law.

Student protests continue in a number of French towns in the midst of aggravating security procedures and controversy on the methods of dealing with demonstrators by the authorities, particularly with the participation of large numbers of minors in such movements. The Government ' s affirmation of the need to maintain public order, and the warnings of rights organizations against excessive use of force, raise legal questions about the rights of students to demonstrate and the limits of their legal responsibility. On these legal aspects and the implications of field escalation, France24 of Paris hosts the lawyer and legal researcher Mohamed Adam Al-Maqani.

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France... New day of student protests in high-security settings.

France is witnessing Tuesday a new day of student mobilization, with tens of thousands of secondary school students preparing to demonstrate in about 30 cities, in the midst of aggravating security procedures involving the deployment of some 2,000 police and gendarmerie in Paris, under a violent protest movement that threatens to reach universities. These calls came back from trade unions.

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Student protests are extended in France despite calls for calm and fear of a new escalation.

The wave of protests in French secondary schools continues in the midst of the expansion of student mobilization to hundreds of educational institutions throughout the country. Among the demands for improving school conditions and combating school disparities, some movements have experienced tensions and confrontations with the security forces, which have resulted in injuries, notably an incident of amputation of a teenager in Lance. With the call for a new day of strikes and demonstrations, fears of student mobility entering a more escalating phase are increasing despite the authorities ' willingness to resume lessons gradually.

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Direct: Interviews between high school students and French security forces in the cities of Leon and Strasbourg

Thousands of French secondary school students pretend Tuesday in several cities, on a new day of protest to demand the potential of their institutions. Interviews between these and the security forces took place in Strasbourg and Leon. These protests are in the context of a large student movement, which is feared to move to universities. These demonstrations resulted in the arrest of over 5,000 people and the injury of 215 students. Keep up our direct cover.

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Spain... Housing protests shake the Sanchez Government and push towards early elections.

The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Monday, called for early public elections, after the House of Representatives, on Friday, rejected the Government ' s attempt to contain the housing crisis in the midst of hard protests. The possible decision to submit the date for the elections scheduled for next year is the result of a Government ' s refusal to confirm the nature of the declaration in advance.

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Student protests in France: trade unions calling for a full strike Tuesday

Among overcrowded sections, a shortage of professors and degraded school buildings, high school students in France raise their voice to demand better educational conditions. A protest movement has expanded throughout the country, driven by a growing sense of neglect. What are these people asking for? Who's behind the move?

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The protests of high school in France: "We don't want to revolutionize, and we just demand that the conditions of education be improved."

From overcrowded sections, lack of teachers and resources to high temperatures within classrooms and deteriorating school conditions, the demands of high-school students in France, who have stepped up their protests over recent days by closing a number of educational institutions. In the suburb of San Donnie (near-Paris), clashes occurred with the security forces, while demands were widening to include improving the conditions of education and addressing what students considered as resource disparities between schools. The Government maintains the need to resume the study.

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Student protests in France... Between legitimate demands and riots

In France, student protests against the conditions of education and lack of cadres and resources in educational institutions continue, as tensions escalate in a number of cities. While student unions assert their commitment to their demands, some moves have turned into riots and vandalism for dozens of secondary schools, resulting in injuries and arrests. In an effort to contain the crisis, the Government opens a dialogue with student representatives and parents, while some Parisian suburbs are experiencing intermittent confrontations between protestors and security forces.