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LGabriel Attal's name has been heard. The police intervened once more on Tuesday on the Sorbonne University and in entrance of Sciences Po Paris to place an finish to gatherings and blocking actions by pro-Palestinian activists.

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Less than 24 hours after Prime Minister Gabriel Attal recalled Monday night that there would “never be a right to blockade” in French universities, the police entered the Sorbonne to evacuate demonstrators who had occupied an amphitheater for round two hours, in “solidarity” with Gaza, famous an AFP journalist.

The activists, who numbered round 100 inside, in accordance with corroborating sources, have been taken out slowly right into a aspect road of the college, typically carried at arm's size by brokers.

At least 88 arrests

The police headquarters reported at this stage 88 arrests throughout this intervention which ended shortly earlier than midnight, in accordance with the rectorate and a police supply. Nearby, stored at a long way by a police cordon, a crowd of demonstrators shouted “Palestine will live, Palestine will win”.

Students mobilized for the Palestinian trigger introduced on the finish of the afternoon to occupy this amphitheater, “with tents”, “in solidarity” with Gaza and “against the repression of pro-Palestinian student movements”.

READ ALSO Faced with pro-Gaza activists at Sciences Po, the rising exasperation of professorsAccording to the rectorate, the demonstrators “benefited from the help of students present inside the building” to enter. “Public officials were violently pushed and attacked,” in accordance with the identical supply.

Double intervention at Sciences Po

The police had already intervened within the Sorbonne on April 29 to evacuate a earlier occupation, on the request of the Prime Minister. Gabriel Attal recalled Monday night, on the dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), his agency line: “We will never accept that a manipulated minority claims to make the law. No one should prevent others from working, studying, revising.”

New demonstration of this firmness displayed on Tuesday with interventions by the police additionally in entrance of Sciences Po, on two events, to disperse pro-Palestinian gatherings. They first dispersed round twenty college students who blocked entry to demand, as in current weeks, an investigation into partnerships with Israeli universities and “an end to the repression of mobilized students and sanctions” . Two arrests occurred, in accordance with the police headquarters.

READ ALSO Tense exchanges between François-Xavier Bellamy and Louis Boyard in entrance of Sciences PoA second gathering of round 100 individuals was then evacuated, organized at noon by the Palestine committee of Sciences Po. LFI deputy Louis Boyard, current, had a vigorous trade with the chief of the Les listing. Republicans (LR) within the European elections, François-Xavier Bellamy, additionally got here there.

The exams scheduled for Tuesday morning have been, nevertheless, capable of begin usually, in accordance with Sciences Po administration.


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