Protests over France‘s failing school system will only ‘intensify’ if demonstrators’ demands are not met, the country’s main high school union has warned.
Hundreds of thousands of protestors have caused havoc in France’s major cities this week over dilapidated classrooms, overloaded timetables and school buildings incapable of coping with rising temperatures.
Demonstrators let off flares, set buildings alight and hurled rocks at police officers as more than 256,000 took to the streets on Tuesday.
Riot police covered in body armour used shields, batons, pepper spray and tear gas to push back demonstrators in the capital, while in southern cities such as Marseille and
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