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Posted on 04/21/2018 1:10:35 PM PDT by BBell
Watch: Students at Paris occupation caused thousands of euros worth of damage, says university president
Protesters caused hundreds of thousands of euros in damage during an occupation of the Pierre Mendès-France Center at Paris' Pantheon-Sorbonne University, according to its President Georges Haddad.
"I have trouble describing it (the site)," Haddad told CNews on April 17. "I am dismayed by the state of the centre, a real shambles. Violence, drugs, sex itself. I've been told that and I think it's true, things are happening that are shameful."
Students and activists started the occupation on March 26 and were cleared out in the early hours of April 20.
They were protesting President Emmanuel Macron's higher education reforms.
Around a hundred officers raided the 22-storey tower on the university's Tolbiac campus, situated on the Seine's Left Bank.
Some students ran while others threw objects including bottles at police, according to an AFP journalist who was at the scene.
Video from inside the centre showed graffiti on the walls and shopping trolleys and crates in the hallway.
Haddad said he was relieved the occupation was over and that no one was injured.
However, hundreds of thousands of euros of public money would now have to be spent on the clean-up, he said.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of a volatile period of civil unrest in France in May 1968, which saw demonstrations, massive general strikes as well as the occupation of universities and factories across the country.
Credit: Juliette de Noyelle via Storyful
Hahahahah, those playful kids!
Oh, the joy of yout.
The last time I was in Paris EVERY building in central Paris was covered like that up to a height as far as one could reach.
The last time I was in Paris EVERY building in central Paris was covered like that up to a height as far as one could reach
I was there in Nov, they must have cleaned it up.
I did my share of littering, not real bad, but quit when I found out what it was like having to clean up what people throw out of cars (and spilled out or thrown out of my KIDs messy cars) on a corner where there the side street was busy.
There was also lots of lipstick and graffiti in public restrooms and elsewhere so kids in my gen did do it.
“...according to its President Georges Haddad.”
I can see one needed reform already, but I doubt he did it.
““...according to its President Georges Haddad.”
I can see one needed reform already, but I doubt he did”
Why?
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They need to start taking back their country, but instead they’re handing it off to the new arrivals.
Two generations of American kids fought and bled and died for these French aholes. And for what?
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