The Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne University was still “partially occupied Thursday” at midday, according to the University Communication Branch. In Sciences Po, the course of the site located rue Saint-Guillaume have been flipped into distance.
Le Monde and AFP
“and the Sorbonne, she is who, she is ours!”: Several hundred students gathered, Thursday, April 14, in an atmosphere tense with the police, in front of the university iconic in Paris, busy Since the day before, to denounce the “false choice” that constitutes the duel between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election. Since Wednesday, hundreds of students have been mobilizing in Paris, Nancy or REIMS, to protest the outcome of the first round of the presidential election and alert on ecological and social issues.
“Sorbonne, Sorbonne, Antifa”, “No, No, No, Pen or Macron”, “Let us enter!”, chacted the students massed in front of the university’s main gateway, place of The Sorbonne, blocked by a cord of CRS. Above, we could read on a large banner hanging on a balcony: “Enraged youth”. Several hundred students participated in a general meeting on Wednesday and “The Sorbonne Building was still partially occupied” Thursday, according to the communication direction of the University Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
At the windows of the building, where was hanging a “occupied Sorbonne against Macron, Pen and their world banner, students, some dressed in black and seeking to conceal their faces, wrote on a table of messages to protesters. Venus participate in a general assembly.
At 1:30 pm, the CRS repealed the students gathered on the square, resulting in a crowd movement and tear gas jets, without doing wounded. Young people, some of whom had blown eyes, declined by singing “and everyone hates the police”. Students in the windows have launched objects such as trash, fire extinguishers, bottles or even furniture, according to a journalist of the France-Press agency on site.
“The youth is facing a false choice”
“Macron and Pen does not represent us at all. These are two options as bad one and the other and we are tired of having to choose between the plague and cholera,” says Clemence, 23 years old, English master student at the Sorbonne, the face covered with a white scarf. “We wonder what future we will have in a few years. We are worried about the climate, precariousness, the political climate.”