PARIS, Oct 13 — French high school pupils staged fresh nationwide rallies today urging better learning conditions, supported by university students and Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, with authorities and participants wary of further violence.
With just months to go before elections to replace President Emmanuel Macron, French authorities had been hoping that the protests would start to ease ahead of half-term holidays to start at the end of the week.
But teenagers at high schools called lycees — backed by university students, teachers, unions and the far-left opposition France Unbowed party — have said their demands have not been met.
“They’re not listening to us, so we’re going to them,” university student union l’Union etudiante wrote on X.
