While a few dozen students organized a pro-Palestinian rally at Sciences Po Paris on Wednesday, the police intervened that night to expel the demonstrators. Facts which occur a month and a half after incidents during the occupation of an amphitheater of the establishment.
Police officers intervened during the night from Wednesday to Thursday at Sciences Po Paris to expel students who were carrying out an occupation.to alert on the situation in Gaza and for an immediate ceasefire“, reports Remy Buisine on. The law enforcement operation took place shortly after midnight according to the Brut journalist.
Police intervention inside a Sciences-Po building, students were expelled from the building around 12:30 a.m.
An occupation was underway inside the building by students to raise awareness of the situation in Gaza and for an immediate ceasefire. pic.twitter.com/nnlz8KBRQK— Remy Buisine (@RemyBuisine) April 24, 2024
Mobilization, organized by the Palestine Committee of Sciences Po, comes at a time when several American universities are caught in the turmoil caused by the conflict in Gaza. Wednesday, uAround fifty people gathered at the end of the afternoon, peacefully, in a courtyard on the Saint-Thomas campus of Sciences Po, in the center of Paris, students told AFP.
“A hundred students“were gathered in the building of 1 Saint Thomas, without”violence or degradation“, confirmed at the beginning of the evening the management of Sciences Po to AFP, which specified that a A large banner in the colors of the Palestinian flag was hung on a walkway inside the building.
“Long live Palestine!“, the students chanted, especially in Arabic, while leaflets were distributed to those present, calling for a “Vigil for Palestine“, with the subtitle “Together against repression, together for justice: Sciences Po must act!“. They pitched around ten tents in an interior courtyard.
Objective of the mobilization: demand that Science Po “cuts ties with universities and businesses complicit in the genocide in Gaza” And “the end of the repression against pro-Palestinian voices on campus“, according to a master’s student who did not wish to give her name.
The mobilization was supported on X by several rebellious candidates in the European elections such as Rima Hassan.
Support for Sciences Po Paris students who are mobilizing for peace and against the genocide in Gaza 🇵🇸
Unacceptable intervention by the CRS!
The voices of peace will not be silenced. They will multiply.
pic.twitter.com/oEQQ42aB0v— Emma Fourreau ⏚ (@emma_frr) April 24, 2024
Total support for the students of Sciences Po who are rising up to denounce the genocide in Gaza and the criminalization of voices in support of the Palestinian cause. You are on the right side of history.
— Rima Hassan (@RimaHas) April 24, 2024
On March 12, some 300 pro-Palestinian students and activists occupied an amphitheater at the prestigious school, as part of a “day of European university mobilization for Palestine“. The Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) then denounced anti-Semitic remarks, which the pro-Gaza students contested.
Science Po was accused of allowing anti-Semitism to flourish and the school management contacted the public prosecutor. An internal administrative investigation is also underway in parallel with the judicial investigation.
Last week, in the United States, around a hundred students at Columbia University were arrested. They demanded an end to the war ravaging Gaza and a boycott by their university of any activity linked to Israel.
At Yale, around fifty people were arrested in similar circumstances. During the night from Monday to Tuesday, 120 people were arrested in front of the premises of the prestigious New York University (NYU).