The Sorbonne, occupied by students who wanted to make their voices heard in the between-two rounds of the French presidential election, was evacuated overnight, the rectorate announced on Friday.
The Sorbonne, occupied by students who wanted to make their voices heard in the between-two rounds of the French presidential election, was evacuated overnight, the rectorate announced on Friday, which “condemned with the greatest firmness this illegal occupation”. “On the night of April 14 to 15, the people occupying the Sorbonne site since Wednesday April 13 left the premises,” the rectorate said in a statement.
He condemned “with the greatest firmness this illegal occupation which has led to unacceptable violence and significant damage (broken glass, fractured doors, broken tiles, knocked down wall, destruction of fire safety devices, destruction of teaching materials, multiple graffiti including on historical heritage)”.
These degradations “impose, at this stage, the maintenance of a total closure of the site”, specifies the press release, affirming that “all the teams of the rectorate remain mobilized alongside the universities” concerned “so that the Sorbonne resumes its operation. usual”. Since Wednesday, hundreds of students have been mobilizing in Paris, Nancy or Reims, to protest against the result of the first round of the presidential election and to alert on ecological and social issues. Some of the students who occupied the Sorbonne, in the center of Paris, had left the university buildings early Thursday evening while others had remained behind, after a day of gatherings peppered with incidents. A few streets away, at Sciences Po Paris, some 150 students blocked the entrance to the school on Thursday. Banners read: “No quarter for fachos, no fachos in our neighborhoods” or “No to the extreme right”.