Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the US blocked access to a campus building at a prestigious French university Friday, prompting administrators to move all classes online. The pro-Palestinian protest at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po, came two days after police broke up a separate demonstration at the university’s amphitheatre outside one of its Paris campuses.
Scores of activists occupied a central school building on Friday, and lots of people blocked its gate with garbage cans, wooden platforms, and a vehicle. In protest of officials who individuals claim called the police on their classmates two days earlier, protesters gathered outside the house’s windows and chanted slogans and hung banners reading” We are all Palestinians.” On Wednesday night, more than 100 pro- Arab protesters occupied the auditorium. After conversations with control, the majority of students decided to leave, but only a tiny minority persisted. They were removed by authorities later that night, according to native information.
The school administration shut down all of its buildings and declared that it” highly condemns these scholar actions which prevent the proper working of the organization.” About 60 activists were reportedly seated inside the dominated building, according to a school speech, and officials were meeting with a student committee to” strive to find a way out of this situation.”
The Sciences Po, which was established in 1871, has both the names of French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Gabriel Attal among its alumni.
