Protests in France, new student demonstrations today

Lecornu: "No orders to the police to clash with young people"

Meanwhile, yesterday, the French Prime Minister, Sebastien Lecornu, explained that "the anger of the young people" involved in the student demonstrations "does not arise out of nowhere". "No one can remain indifferent to the anxieties they express", he added, assuring that the police "have no instructions to clash with the students". And an investigation was opened after the spread on social media of a video showing a Police Nationale off-road vehicle hurtling at high speed towards protesters in Dunkirk.

Dialogue does not stop protests

Not only that. Lecornu also announced that "the government's first decisions will be presented at the end of October", but that "the dialogue spaces started" in schools will continue "in every high school, until next week". At the same time, several representatives of high school and university organizations asked to be received by the prime minister given the absence of any "concrete measure" announced by the ministers of education and higher education. But, despite these obvious openings and these attempts at dialogue on both sides, today the fourth act of the mobilization is still being staged in the squares of French cities - in Paris the appointment is at the Bastille.