Macron “firmly” condemns blockages in French universities | EUROtoday

Emmanuel Macron finds it “completely legitimate and even healthy and reassuring that our youth can say that international news affects them and that they debate it”, however “to order an establishment to have this or that policy by force and blocking, preventing other students from accessing an amphitheater on the pretext that they are Jewish, this is not the Republic,” he insists.

“Favorable” to evacuation by regulation enforcement

The president is due to this fact “in favor” of the evacuation by the police of blocked universities “at the request of the establishments”. According to him, the scholars who block the institutions are “politicized. Some groups, such as La France insoumise, considered that this was a relevant way of waging the fight. It is simply counterproductive and unacceptable that, in the name of their struggles, they prevent debate,” he says.

The police evacuated pro-Palestinian activists from Sciences Po Paris on Friday, rapidly placing an finish to the occupation of the distinguished institution. Several gatherings and blockades have taken place in current days on Sciences Po websites and in universities, in some instances resulting in the intervention of regulation enforcement, echoing an ongoing mobilization on a number of campuses within the United States.