The blocking of the Bordeaux-Montaigne University raised after a police intervention | EUROtoday

The blocking of Bordeaux-Montaigne University, began three weeks in the past by Protestant college students towards price range cuts, ended on Friday, April 11, after a police intervention on the request of the presidency. “In view of the very many messages which have been sent to me (…) I can measure that this decision will be welcomed as a relief. I also know that the students mobilized will see an authoritarian act there ”said on the university site its president, Alexandre Péraud.

On a publication of the AG Montaigne Instagram account, bringing together the students behind the mobilization, we can see several police vehicles parked in front of the establishment. “Send 60 law enforcement officials, gendarmes and CRS at 6 am to dislodge an occupation voted primarily in a basic assembly of greater than 900 folks, is undoubtedly the conception of” democracy “and” relief “”they quip in a message posted online. They called for a new GA during the day, denouncing in particular “Violence” against students during police intervention. The university, it says that the operation took place “Without incident”.

“General exhaustion” and “rising dissatisfaction”

All face -to -face courses have been arrested since March 24, and the “Multiple makes an attempt at dialogue” have led to “No exit from the disaster”underlines in a press release Bordeaux-Montaigne, the smallest of the two Bordeaux universities (some 17,000 students, out of a total of around 70,000).

The establishment cites in particular “The multiplication of endangers of scholars” and teaching staff, “Increasingly degraded premises” and obtaining diplomas “Clearly in peril”. “Blocking was historically the ultimate tool for a fight. Its legitimacy and its ability to rally were due to its exceptionality. Trivialized, blocking breaks social dialogue and no longer rallies unions »justified Mr. Péraud.

Interviewed Wednesday by the Agency France-Presse (AFP), the Union Student Bordeaux and Unef Bordeaux had assured support the claims of the blockers, but also described “A basic exhaustion” and a “Growing dissatisfaction” with students and teachers. The cuts related to higher education in the Bayrou government budget are estimated at more than a billion euros, according to the unions.