High school student movement: 824 arrests in Île-de-France since Monday

The high school blockade movement began on Monday and since then, 824 people have been arrested in Île-de-France, including 255 this Friday. The police headquarters indicated on Saturday that “85%” of them are minors.

Most are “high school students, but not necessarily from the high schools near which they commit abuses,” specifies the prefecture. According to her, these young people “come to degrade, break and hit near their homes”, because “90% of those arrested are arrested in their department of residence”.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, denouncing “urban violence” near nearly 160 establishments, announced 1,747 arrests throughout the country for Friday alone and more than 5,000 since Monday.

“Urban violence”

According to the police headquarters, the movement is “pending and rotating”. Thus, in the Paris metropolitan area, the protest began in the inner suburbs, in Val-de-Marne, before spreading to Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts-de-Seine and finally to Paris on the sidelines, Tuesday, of the day of mobilization for salaries in the public service.

It is not the same establishments that are blocked every day, explains the PP. “From a social protest, we have arrived at actions whose perpetrators use modes of action of urban violence (mortar fire aimed at law enforcement and national education personnel, damage by means of incendiary devices, barricades, etc.),” she adds.

77 police officers were injured, underlines the prefecture, praising “the self-sacrifice and professionalism of personnel who come out of a dense sequence with the visit of Pope Leo XIV”.