After Sciences Po Paris last week and the Sorbonne on Monday, the pro-Palestinian mobilization in French universities is gaining momentum on Tuesday April 30. THE Sciences Po campus in Menton (Alpes-Maritimes) is closed “until further notice”after the occupation of the premises by students, franceinfo learned. A banner “Gaza, Sciences Po is with you” was deployed in front of the establishment. DOther students are mobilizing in Lyon, Grenoble or Dijon, noted AFP. Follow our live stream.
Lhe Tolbiac campus in Paris closed since 1:30 p.m. According to the university, contacted by Agence Radio France, the mobilization began around 11 a.m. “We let the classes end and then we closed the center around 1:30 p.m. for security reasons”, she specifies. The Palestine Committee of Paris 1 explains to franceinfo that “the university has locked the students on campus” and that “more than a thousand people are confined inside”.
“Blocks and intimidation are no,” judges the Minister of Higher Education. While a handful of establishments are targeted by actions, Sylvie Retailleau recalled during of the Questions to the Government session on Tuesday, that the watchword was “zero tolerance.” “Shame on those who exploit the conflict and use the students”, she also said.
Rima Hassan questioned by the police for “apology of terrorism”. The candidate LFI in the European elections spent part of the morning in the premises of the Regional Directorate of the Paris Judicial Police to explain his interview given to the media Le Crayon, certain extracts of which caused controversy. “It went very well, she told reporters at the outlet. LThe investigators were able to view the interview in its entirety. (…) It had been shared in a fairly dishonest way, 9 seconds of an interview which lasts around forty minutes.
Mathilde Panot condemns “an unprecedented authoritarian headlong rush”. The leader of the LFI deputies was also heard on the subject of a press release published by her parliamentary group on October 7, the day of the Hamas attack against Israel. This text sparked controversy because it particularly paralleled the attack by the Islamist movement, described as “an armed offensive by Palestinian forces”, And “the intensification of the Israeli occupation policy” in the Palestinian territories. “What is happening in France is an unprecedented authoritarian headlong rush,” declared the MP for Val-de-Marne, before entering the premises to answer questions from the police.