Three Names, One Crowd

On Thursday 1,027 of France's roughly 3,700 high schools were caught up in the student protests, 222 of them blockaded, and the government cannot agree what it is looking at: the education minister called the movement legitimate at the outset, the interior ministry calls it urban violence, and the prime minister's office says intelligence sees an organised manoeuvre by a left party whose members backed it. Three offices, three names, one crowd.

A week into France's school revolt the government cannot agree on what it is: the education minister called it legitimate at the outset, the interior ministry now calls it urban violence, and the prime minister's office says intelligence sees an organised manoeuvre by a left party some of whose members backed the protests; on Thursday 1,027 of the country's roughly 3,700 high schools were affected, 222 of them blockaded, and the minister met unions, students and parents on Friday.

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