Unprecedented student protests are rocking France. Here’s why they’re angry
The protesters do now have the government’s full attention, especially after a spike in violence late last week, when the interior minister noted a shift from student protest to urban violence and some 2,000 people were taken into custody in a single day.
A student holds a flag of La France Insoumise (France Unbowed - LFI) party as French high school students gather outside the Lycee Voltaire high school as part of nationwide protests, on October 2.
The student protest of May 1968 turned into the largest strike in French history, in a country that knows a thing or two about strikes.
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