Students blocked one of the campuses of the University of Lille on Wednesday, where partials were canceled, demanding the withdrawal of the pension reform and the adjustment of exams after a disrupted semester, we learned from of the university and the trade unions.
“The Pont-de-Bois campus is blocked today, the partials are effectively canceled,” a spokesperson for the University of Lille told AFP, adding that the presidency was still thinking about the terms of the postponement of these. exams.
According to Léonie Cornette, secretary of the Student Union Federation (FSE) in Lille, and Jasmine Carlier, activist from Solidaires Étudiants, the blockage was put in place around 6 a.m., students installing grids, supermarket trolleys or garden furniture around all the entrances to the campus, located in Villeneuve d’Ascq in the Lille metropolitan area.
First blockage for this campus since the start of the protest
Police intervened without lifting the blockade. Around 7:00 a.m., students began to receive emails informing them of the administrative closure of the site for the day, they explained.
“This is the first time” that the campus has been blocked during exams since the start of the protest against the pension reform, said these two activists. Several sectors are concerned, including the humanities, letters and languages, they said.
“We are demanding an adjustment of the exams, because the semester has been very disrupted. We are claiming the ’10 improvable’, that is to say a floor mark for all students”, explained Léonie Cornette (FSE). “With the mobilization, there are certain courses that we have not had for the semester, people who have not been able to move because of the train strikes”, also argued Jasmine Carlier (Solidaires).
The campus “mobilization committee” distributed a leaflet on social networks, calling on students to a “General Assembly of struggle” at 10:00 a.m. “With the end of the semester approaching, how can students participate in the battle against the pension reform while stressing to validate their year? We have demands to allow this release, but the university is turning a deaf ear ( …) We will have to fight”, pleads the committee in this leaflet.