The police intervened, Monday May 6 in the afternoon, in front of Sciences Po Paris, to dislodge activists mobilized in support of the inhabitants of Gaza who had set up tents, when the students of this school were taking their exams. The exams took place normally, management said.
According to the police headquarters, “80 people having settled on the public highway in front of Sciences Po Paris, a police intervention at the request of the prefect took place”, and all the people were evacuated “peacefully”.
A student at the establishment, member of the Palestine committee, who did not wish to give her name, spoke of a “peaceful gathering which lasted two hours”, before “the police intervened” to evacuate the demonstrators and three tents. .
Mobilizations in regions
Already, at the start of the morning, around twenty students had gathered in front of the establishment on rue Saint-Guillaume, without blocking access to the building, shouting “Israel assassin, Sciences Po complicit” or “Palestine will live, Palestine will conquer », before lying down on the sidewalk.
In Reims, “there was a blockage at Sciences Po, the exams could not take place for the 500 first-year students (out of a total of approximately 1,000 students),” indicated the management of Sciences Po. exams will have to be rescheduled.
In Strasbourg, the building which houses the premises of the University Center for Journalism Education (CUEJ) was blocked by students who denounce the “media treatment” of the situation in Gaza, according to a student press release.
The movement is inspired by the protests that have agitated around forty campuses in the United States since mid-April. In France, the student mobilization to denounce the situation in Gaza mainly concerns Sciences Po (5,000 to 6,000 students in Paris), its regional campuses and other political studies institutes.
