NOVEMBER 17-20 : Pupils take over the fight- demonstrations and confrontations.
To contest another school reform proposed in October and confirmed these days, pupils blocked some schools and called to walk the streets. This reform “redefines” the ‚literary‘ and ‚technological‘ classes and diploma in school (the desire to suppress these two diploma is openly planned since 2005)- including the suppression of teachers, as usual. This year, the installation of security doors and guards is also announced: after 4 years of fight in universities and high-schools, the school administrations and the State crack down on the rebels.
REIMS
November 20th: Pupils demonstration hardly repressed.
To contest the arrival of the ministers F.Fillon, L.Chatel et V. Pécresse at Roosvelt High-School, 300 persons gather to demonstrate. The ministers came especially to “talk” about the new reforms. The anti-riot police charged the demonstration as it started. Kicking, punching, hardly hitting with belts and batons. Four pupils went to the hospital- one was dragged out by the cops, and had his two knees broken. A new call for a demonstration against this repression on November 24th was made. Three people were immediately judged and sentenced to 3 or 4 months of suspended prison sentence, for “violence on public authorities” . 5 other people were presented to the ‚children judge‘.
DIJON
November 19th: 200 pupils gather in front of Simone Veil school, at 8.00. Several garbages piled in the entrance, and eggs thrown in the yard…They denounce the repression of the demonstration the day before. Playing with the police, the confrontation took place in front of several high-schools in town. Two cars are damaged, one being turned upside down on a parking. Five people are arrested.
ROUEN
November 17th : about 1000 pupils demonstrate in the town.
November 19th: pupils spontaneous demonstration, ravaging and arrests.
To contest another school reform announced this day, high-school pupils fought in two different part of the town. 300 pupils of the ‚industrial-school‘ went down the streets, and finished at a private clinic, they devastated. Four people were at this moment arrested. Then 200 pupils fought police forces from the Le Corbusier high school of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. Three people are arrested. The press talks about a girl injured at her legs and face when trying to put out a Molotov cocktail.
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