French police clear out another pro-Palestinian student demonstration at the Sorbonne

Although with less intensity than the Americans, Protests in favor of Palestine continue in French universities, If more than a thousand people blocked the historic Sciencespo building on Friday ParisThis Monday the police intervened to break up another demonstration taking place there Sorbonne UniversityWhere blockade was imposed last week also.

Agents have removed students protesting in favor of Palestine from there And they had pitched tents inside the building. One student told AFP that police escorted him off campus. “Pretty violent”

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The police prefecture ordered the evacuation of the center, as did Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Last Friday, he had already ordered the end of the protest at the gates of Sciences Po. The university is closed and the Paris Rectorate has also said that some scheduled examinations have been suspended.

Intervention of law enforcement forces inside university centers is not common in France, since the authorization of the Rectorate is required, and they inflame the atmosphere even more in a country accustomed to student revolutions. Ultimately, police did not intervene in Friday’s protests.

Students want to join the demands of American universities in favor of Gaza, While some parties have already tried to raise this issue

, is the case of rebellious franceLed by a far-left party Jean-Luc Mélenchon, They have called what is happening in Gaza a genocide from the beginning and many of their representatives were present at the demonstration on Friday.

This party has said that the protests should be increasedThe government is accusing the party of spoiling the atmosphere. It takes place a few days before the traditional May Day demonstrations in France, which are usually tense.

Gabriel Attal declared this weekend, “There will never be a right to a blockade, there will never be a tolerance for the actions of an active and dangerous minority that wants to impose its rules on our students and our teachers.” manuel bumpardThe coordinator of La Francia Insumisa requested that the mobilization be increased “To stop the drama in Gaza”,