In support of the teachers’ movement, the students blocked the entrances to the La Rochelle establishment
A tangle of carts and barriers, loud music, students massed in front of the gate, dancing and filming their performance with their phones.
A usual scene of demonstration at Valin high school, Thursday, January 20. With, however, additional masks and a large deployment of police. The police wanted to make sure that the blocking of the establishment would not cause clashes. For the record, a heated altercation between a high school student and a police officer was relayed on social networks in 2018. This was not the case this time, apart from a garbage fire quickly extinguished by firefighters.
Access was blocked with trolleys and barriers.
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The high school was made inaccessible from 8 a.m., in support of the national movement of teachers against the health protocol. “We are with them and they are with us”, proclaimed a final year student. In the sights of young demonstrators, the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer. “We also want to go to Ibiza! Despite the techno music, we were far from the sun of the Balearic Islands this Thursday morning.
A tag on the school wall.
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The doors of the establishment were still blocked in the middle of the morning. High school students were planning a return to class on Friday. Though. “I have a philosophy test tomorrow, I hope the school will still be blocked,” smiled a student.