💠(1)Pro-Palestine Students Dig in on Campuses Across Europe💠

2024-05-09 / Thursday - 2024 09 May

💠Pro-Palestine Students Dig in on Campuses Across Europe💠

PARIS (Dispatches) -- French police detained 86 people following an operation to remove students staging a pro-Palestinian occupation at the Sorbonne university in Paris, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Those arrested in the police operation on Tuesday night were being held for a variety of public order offences, said the statement.

They include willful damage, rebellion, violence against a person holding public authority, intrusion into an education establishment and holding a meeting designed to disrupt order. Some are also being held for participation in a group with a view to preparing violence or damage to property.

They can be held for an initial 24 hours, which can then be extended another 24 hours.

The day before police moved in, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said there would never be a right to disrupt France’s universities with such protests.

Police acted after about 100 students had been occupying a lecture theatre for two hours in “solidarity” with the people of Gaza, an AFP journalist on site noted.

Tuesday night’s police operation at the Sorbonne -- and at another university on Paris’s Left Bank, Science Po university -- followed interventions to end similar protests at the end of April.

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