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Saint-Denis mayor Bally Bagayoko was tear-gassed on Tuesday after standing between riot police and student protesters, telling the youth their demands were just while condemning disproportionate force.
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Education minister Edouard Geffray says 400-500 lycées will close on Monday as student protests over crumbling classrooms and teacher shortages spread nationwide. Twenty-four schools have been burned or ransacked, 78 staff injured, and nearly 5,000 teenagers arrested since the unrest began.
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400 French schools shut this week as students protested teacher shortages and crumbling buildings — and the Macron government answered with riot police, 2,000 arrests and a demand that parents pay reparations. Austerity for schools, repression for schoolchildren: the state has made its choice.
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