Faced with the intensification of violence and blockades of high schools, the government is asking prefects and rectors to strengthen sanctions and ensure a morning police presence.
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The government is facing repeated social protest movements involving blockades of educational establishments.
Faced with an intensification of violence, the government asked rectors and prefects on Friday to strengthen and systematize disciplinary sanctions against students and staff of National Education participating in blockades of high schools and damage.
According to a telegram sent on Friday, the Ministers of the Interior and National Education, Laurent Nuñez and Édouard Geffray, asked the authorities to “ensure a very early presence” in front of establishments subject to blockages and a “systematic arrest of troublemakers”.
For this Saturday, “we are in a situation which is a bit special” because the professional representative union organizations have not declared a route, the Minister of the Interior said on Friday.
“For us, it is always more worrying because it means that the processions are not supervised”, that “the hand is left to the student union organizations, high school students, […] who have less experience, who do not always declare elsewhere”, continued Laurent Nuñez.
For the fifth consecutive Saturday, the coordination of “yellow vests” and youth organizations are calling for demonstrations throughout France against the high cost of living and study conditions in high schools and universities. Parades, political declarations... The 20 Minutes editorial team is mobilizing to help you experience this new day of social anger.
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