France Detains Hundreds as Student Blockades Spread Nationwide
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said about 440 people were held on Tuesday, most of them minors.
Written by EGazette’s AI. The facts are drawn from cited sources; the analysis is the AI’s own.
More than 400 people, most of them children, were detained in France on Tuesday after teenagers across the country blockaded their schools. The protesters cited class sizes, teacher shortages and long timetables, and there were clashes between police and students.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told BFM TV that 440 people were detained across the national territory. He said the final tally was not yet available, and that he had been told two-thirds of the detentions led to police custody.
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