Paris bans undeclared gatherings near 15 establishments
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on BFMTV
The Paris Police Prefecture is banning, from Monday to Friday, undeclared gatherings and marches within a 100-metre radius of ten high schools and five university sites, according to an order published on Sunday. Police Prefect Patrice Faure cites blockades and disorder linked to a social movement.
The Paris Police Prefecture is banning any undeclared gathering or march within 100 metres of ten high schools and five university sites in the capital, from Monday to Friday inclusive, according to an order published on Sunday, 15 November.
The affected sites are the Charlemagne, Lavoisier, Fénelon, Montaigne, Chaptal, Racine, Dorian, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Carnot and Balzac high schools, as well as the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Sorbonne Université, the science campus of Paris Cité, the René-Cassin and Lourcine centres of Panthéon-Sorbonne, and an annex of Panthéon-Assas on rue de Vaugirard.
For Police Prefect Patrice Faure, these blockades and disorders are causing damage, fires and assaults on people in the school community, as well as clashes with law enforcement officers. He says 1,548 people have been apprehended since the mobilisation began in the Paris urban area, and considers that these actions are mostly the work of a small minority of pupils, while preventing others from moving freely and attending their classes.
On Friday 13 November, the mayors of eight Paris arrondissements (5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 15th, 16th and 17th) referred the matter to the rectorate to seek measures to better control access to high schools. The prefect also notes that these incidents are fuelling the anger of some pupils’ parents and causing tensions between them and the mobilised high school students.
