Hi. I’m a 20-year-old French student. If you follow me, you’ve maybe seen this post I made a couple of weeks ago. I’m going to explain real quick, because it’s not the point here. Maybe you know this, but college in France is free. We are very lucky, we do realize that. In February, the Ministary of Higher Education decided to pass a law which will create selection before entering uni, start an entrance fee, and all sorts of unpleasant, expensive things. Collectively, French students have decided to stand up against this law. My university, Paul Valery in Montpellier, has been the leader of this movement. In the past two months, we have blocked the university for weeks, stopping classes and creating an alternative schedule with our own courses. It has been wonderful, and we have been heard.
Yesterday, March 22nd, was a day of National Strike decided by the unions and syndicates. Not only were the universties blocked and teachers striking, but so were a lot of people in other fields. As a consequence, the University of Law of Montpellier was legally occupied by the Paul Valery collective to instigate debates and discussions. There was a vote, which decided that one amphitheatre would be occupied during the night.
At midnight, the Dean of the University of Law was seen counting students in the lecture hall. One minute later, a group of masked men broke into the amphitheatre, armed with wooden bars, tasers, metal bars. They attacked the students who were pacifically speaking, some of them sleeping. There were high schoolers occupying the room.
They sent three girls to the hospital and hurt a dozen more. That picture is a friend, who had her skull fractured, ribs cracked, and was dragged out of the room by her friends while she was bleeding in the hallways.
Since then, we’ve learned that the Dean was the one who called the fascist group and let them in. The university personnel held the doors open while the masked men beat my friends, my fellow students, minors, into submission. As the girl was dragged out, the personnel closed the door stores on her legs and almost crushed them.
A student recognized one of the masked man as one of the University of Law’s teachers.
I spent the entire day in the streets, with hundreds of students, protesting against what happened. They sent the police against us. We peacefully went to the local senator’s office and waited hours for the Minister to take a stand. She didn’t. Only the local authorities condemned the Dean’s actions. Until a few hours ago, the only news spread was that students from my University decided to attack students from the University of Law.
Let me stress this out. The DEAN of a Univesity called a fascist group to beat up uni students and high schoolers. This morning, as I sat in front of the University of Law with almost a thousand students, there was still blood on the stairs leading to the doors.
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Last night, a teacher sent a girl to the hospital with a cracked skull.
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