
As president of the Union syndicale lycéenne, 19-year-old Ryad Rani is leading the angry protests by high school students in France.
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Protests by high school students shake the French Republic.
The French are just getting to know Ryad Rani, a young man, 19 years old, with a bit of a beard. He appears everywhere, on the radio and on television, and speaks in a gentle but firm voice about the demands of the very loud and angry protest movement of high school students that has been shaking the republic for a few days.
Ryad Rani leads them. As president of the Union syndicale lycéenne, he is their mouthpiece, their megaphone.
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