The police intervened on Monday afternoon at the Sorbonne University in Paris to evacuate militants mobilized for the Palestinian cause, who had set up tents inside the university institution.
About fifty demonstrators were led outside the building, then removed as a group, framed by law enforcement, a few days after a mobilization sprinkled with tensions at another renowned university in the French capital, Sciences Po Paris (Institute of Political Studies). .
“There were about 50 of us when the police ran into the yard. The evacuation was quite brutal, with about ten people dragged on foot, but no arrests”, said Remi, 20 years old, student of history and geography at the Sorbonne. “They escorted us to the exit and then made us walk down the rue Saint-Jacques in a group,” he added.
Several dozens of students gathered on Monday in the middle of the day in front of the Sorbonne and inside the building, where they set up tents, 12 according to the rectorate, between 20 and 30 according to a protester. A Palestinian flag was spread on the floor.
“The amphitheatres were evacuated around noon,” announced the rectorate, which decided to close the university on Monday afternoon.
About 150 people were gathered in front of the institution, in the presence of three MPs from the radical left party Insubordinate France (LFI).
On Friday, a day of blockade and mobilization, sprinkled with tensions, took place at Sciences Po Paris, in which several deputies of the LFI already participated.
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