Establishments blocked by high school students five days before the second round of the presidential election. “There is a call for mobilization for this day”, confirmed the rectorate on Tuesday, estimating at around five the number of high schools concerned in Paris shortly before 11 a.m. “At this hour, there is no violence. Some sites remain filtering, others blocking ”, in particular the Louis-le-Grand high school, he specified. In front of this prestigious high school, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, 150 to 200 high school students blocked the entrance in the middle of morning in a good-natured atmosphere, noted an AFP journalist. Perched on trash cans, young people shouted: “Social justice, climate justice”, “Down with the state, the cops and the fachos”, or even “And everyone hates Marine Le Pen”. On placards displayed in front of the school, one could read: “The youth annoys the FN”, or “We don’t like anything, we want everything”. “We are fed up with the fascist state. We are here against Marine Le Pen, against fascism, for the climate and against capitalism, ”said AFP Jules, 15, a high school student in Louis-le-Grand, perched on a trash can with a megaphone. “We blocked all entrances. We will stay there as long as possible. “Mobilization of high school students in front of Louis-le-Grand, in Paris, “for the climate, our future, against the far right and inequalities” pic.twitter.com/i4uOtDd458— Noémie Bonnin (@N_Bonnin) April 19, 2022
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“We want a third social tower” In front of the Lavoisier high school, also in the Latin Quarter, around fifty high school students were gathered, some on trash cans, claiming to only let teachers and students from preparatory classes enter. “It’s a continuation of what happened at the Sorbonne. We want a third social round, because the two qualified candidates in the second round do not have a social or ecological project, “said Hollis, 17, to AFP. “We want to breathe new life into this Fifth Republic which is a little at the end of its course.” In the same district, temporary actions had taken place earlier in the morning in front of the Henri-IV and Fénelon high schools. In front of the Lamartine high school (9th), a hundred young people also blocked the entrance to the establishment, AFP noted. Hundreds of students mobilized last week in Paris, Nancy or Reims, to protest against the result of the first round of the presidential election. Some notably occupied the Sorbonne on Wednesday and Thursday, supported by hundreds of young people, before evacuating the university after a day full of incidents with the police.