Repression and Resistance: High School Protests and Public Order Policing in France
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"It's not education that costs too much, it's the army, it's war": hundreds of French high school students demonstrate once again on Thursday to denounce the "repression" of the authorities, who have banned several processions since Saturday. ...
What began as a student protest against maladministration at the Saint-Exupéry Gymnasium in the suburb of Créteil in Paris has developed into a emerging state crisis in France.
Repression and Resistance: High School Protests and Public Order Policing in France
In less than a month, high school protests over a lack of resources in the Paris suburbs have escalated into a striking wave of police violence and mass arrests. How did a student demonstration over school conditions transform into a major public order crisis? The violence is primarily the result of a political choice by the Ministry of the Interior – prioritising arrests over negotiation – enabled by expanded pre-emptive offences and a hostile …
The student protests in France show that the police must also be able to stand up to protest. What they can learn from Jannis Grimm's book.
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