Riots broke out at a protest by high school students in a Paris suburb

Riots broke out at a protest of high school students in the commune of Saint-Denis in the suburbs of Paris, the police used tear gas against the protesters, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the scene.

Earlier, the Students' Trade Union (Union Étudiante) and the Lyceum Trade Union Association (Union Syndicale Lycéenne) called for the lyceums and universities in France to be blocked again on October 1.

Dozens of high school students gathered outside the Lycée Bartholdi in Saint-Denis on Thursday morning to protest a number of problems in the education sector. Then they moved towards the city center.

The protest took place peacefully until aggressive young people dressed in black joined the protest movement. They began throwing firecrackers at police officers and destroying garbage cans. In response, the police controlling the action used tear gas.