In France, 30 thousand high school students cannot study in person due to protests

PARIS, Oct 7 - RIA Novosti. About 30 thousand students in France were temporarily deprived of the opportunity to study full-time due to the fact that their educational institutions were destroyed and set on fire during protests by high school students, said French Minister of National Education Edouard Geffret.

Previously, Geffre reported on 24 recorded cases of destruction and arson of educational institutions during large-scale protests by high school students.

“Thus, 30 thousand high school students are deprived of the opportunity to attend classes in person,” BFMTV quoted Geffre as saying.

The minister noted that this situation causes “huge damage” to the educational process in the country. The head of the French Ministry of Education clarified that the number of employees of educational institutions injured during the protests reached 88 people, according to the BFMTV material.