Squeezie supports high school students mobilized in France and calls for their demands to be listened to

While the mobilization of high school students continues in several cities in France, the YouTuber and content creator Squeezie provided his support on Friday to the students mobilized to demand more resources in their establishments. In a story published on Instagram, he said he was “admiring and proud of our students”, believing that “their demands are more than legitimate”. “They need to be heard and their demands are more than legitimate. Admiring and proud of our students,” he wrote, before directly sending a message to the mobilized young people. “With all my heart to you students. Take care of yourself and be careful,” adds the streamer.

Asked by an Internet user about the excesses that punctuate the movement, Squeezie also reacted to the violence and degradation. “No one is happy to see an establishment or a fire truck burning,” he admitted, while considering that these “remain isolated events” given the “scale of the movement”. The YouTuber then called for highlighting the students' demands rather than the incidents. “Afterwards you are free to use your voice either to be outraged by this over and over again like most of the media, or to make the demands of our young people heard which once again are more than legitimate,” he wrote to his subscribers.

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High tensions

The mobilization, which has extended to students, calls in particular for more human and material resources, in a context of denunciation of buildings considered unsanitary, overcrowded classes and a lack of staff. On Friday, 735 establishments were disrupted, according to the Minister of National Education Édouard Geffray, or 30% less than the day before. Since the start of the movement, 65 staff have been injured, including 40 principals, he also indicated.