Movement of Angry High School Students in Lyon: a Demonstration Announced This Thursday in the City Centre
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The Rhône prefecture has issued an order prohibiting demonstrations in the Gerland district. A procession, which could bring together 2,000 to 4,000 people, was planned, while a second rally is announced in the city centre on Thursday afternoon.
A new demonstration is planned this Thursday, October 15, 2026 in Lyon, as part of the anger movement of high school students. This time, the departure is announced in the city center.
This week, it has already been nearly twenty days since the high school movement and now also a student seized the Lyon streets almost daily. Everywhere, the high schools still have their doors firmly closed or barricaded for fear of the resurgence of high school gatherings at the doors of the institutions, despite the unprecedented repression led jointly by the prefecture and the rectorate.
"He had moved a trash can that was burning": this is what the police reproached a senior high school student in Villeurbanne, handcuffed and then taken to the police station. The day before, the article In Lyon and Villerbanne, the police crackdown sank on the processions: parents and teachers battled, high school student arrested appeared first on Le Café pédagogique.
Youth mobilization is scheduled to continue this Thursday, October 15th in Lyon. A student demonstration is announced at 10am from Debourg, before a second high school meeting at 3pm Place des Terreaux.
In the Rhône and the metropolis of Lyon, 17 schools were affected this Wednesday morning by rallies. Authorities report garbage fires, damage, mortar fire and 12 arrests. See more
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