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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.
French police cleared protesters from the Sorbonne – one of the country’s most prestigious universities – on April 29, with video geolocated by CNN showing officers dragging two ...
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]
After months of conflicts between students and authorities at the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris (now Paris Nanterre University), the administration shut the university down on 2 May 1968. [8] Students at the University of Paris's Sorbonne campus (today Sorbonne University) met on 3 May to protest the closure and the threatened ...
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.
Thousands of protesters hold demonstrations in Belgrade, Serbia against the arrest of Ratko Mladić (26 May). 2011 Portuguese anti-austerity movement (12 March) Nationwide protests across Spain (May–) Anti-cuts protest in London (26 March) Refugees of the 2011 Libyan civil war (2011–2013) Nationwide protests and strikes in Greece continue ...
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 ...