Widespread closures disrupt education after student demonstrations over underfunding escalate into arson and clashes.
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Widespread closures disrupt education after student demonstrations over underfunding escalate into arson and clashes.
Around 400 French schools and educational establishments remained closed on Friday due to spreading student demonstrations. The protests, which began in the Paris region last month, have now occurred nationwide.
The main student grievances involve teacher shortages and poor conditions in school buildings. The government ordered the closures following a crisis meeting on Thursday.
The demonstrations have grown more intense, resulting in injuries and hundreds of police arrests. Officials reported that students set fires in at least two high schools on Thursday.
In other incidents, a car was burned in Strasbourg, riot police clashed with youths in Toulouse, and teachers were accidentally splashed with petrol at a school in Marseille.
A government contact said intelligence agencies concluded the protest movement was initiated by politicians from the hard left, specifically members of the France Unbowed party. The country's education minister relayed this claim.
Louis Boyard, a lawmaker from France Unbowed, denied that his party had instigated the protests in comments to broadcasters.
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