Pro-Gaza mobilization: French college students decided to make themselves heard | EUROtoday

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In Paris and the remainder of France, college students from a number of main faculties and universities demonstrated in opposition to the battle in Gaza. The police evacuated pro-Palestinian activists from Sciences Po Paris on Friday, rapidly placing an finish to the occupation of the celebrated institution, the epicenter of the mobilization. Analysis of the state of affairs with our visitor Lucas Sarafian, political journalist at Politis.

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