“Not here to provoke the cops”: in Nantes, high school students keep their distance from antifa

The dreaded rain of batons ultimately never came. She was apprehended from the start of the morning, feared several times during the march, even watched by the most vigilant. In the end, and to the astonishment of even the most successful ultras, no interruption or charge disrupted the progress of the large gathering which took place this Tuesday in the city center of Nantes. A restraint which allowed the mobilized high school students to express all their anger, like the some 86,000 demonstrators recorded by the Ministry of the Interior at midday, across France, outside the Paris region (compared to 260,000 according to the CGT).

Although electrified by a few bursts of tension, the youth of Nantes flooded en masse into the streets, from the castle of the Dukes of Brittany to the prefecture of Loire-Atlantique, on the occasion of the new national day of mobilization of the high school movement. At the end of the morning, the influx was estimated at around 12,500 people according to…