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Protesters angry over the Gaza war took to Paris' Sorbonne University on Monday, chanting 'Free Palestine' at the university's gates while some students set up tents in the courtyard. Days after ...
In Paris, students inspired by pro-Palestinian protests in the U.S. gather near Sorbonne university 04/29/2024 14:54 -0400 PARIS (AP) — Dozens of students gathered near the Sorbonne university in Paris on Monday to protest in support of the Palestinians, echoing similar demonstrations on campuses in the United States.
Riot police stand guard on the sidelines of a rally by university students in support of Palestinian people after a makeshift campement in front of the Sorbonne University was dispersed by police ...
On 6 May, the national student union, the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (UNEF, the National Union of Students of France)—still France's largest student union today—and the union of university teachers called a march to protest the police invasion of the Sorbonne. More than 20,000 students, teachers and supporters marched toward ...
To protect the city, public authorities ordered the Place de la Sorbonne closed. This square has been a symbol for French student protests since May 1968.. The controversial bill, entitled "Loi pour l'égalité des chances" ("Equal Opportunity Law"), created a new job contract, the Contrat première embauche (CPE – First Employment Contract or Beginning Workers Contract).
On May 7, protests spread across Europe with mass arrests in the Netherlands. [23] [24] By May 12, twenty encampments had been established in the United Kingdom, and across universities in Australia and Canada. [25] [26] The protests largely ended as universities closed for the summer. [27]
University strikes occurred in France during 2007 and 2009. Since Valérie Pécresse was appointed Minister for Higher Education and Research, the mood had been tense in the French university system. Several reform projects had led to protest movements, including that of 2009, the longest-lasting yet since 1968, still on-going after several months.
Some professors of history and other social sciences of Pantheon-Sorbonne approved of the occupation. [18] [19] [20] However, the president of the university Georges Haddad denounced a capharnaum of violence, drug, sex and rave parties in the occupied Tolbiac center [21] and asked the police to remove the occupants. The police first refused to ...