The mobilization will have lasted more than 30 hours.
All the students who occupied the Sorbonne to show their dissatisfaction with the qualified candidates for the second round of the presidential election left the premises in the evening and overnight from Thursday to Friday, reports Franceinfo.
“All the students of the occupation have decided to leave,” said Thursday evening, to AFP, Baptiste, a second-year philosophy student in this Parisian faculty and activist Unef, who participated in the movement. inside the building.
"It followed several pieces of news that were transmitted to us", and in particular "the fact that the next outings that we would make would result in police custody", "that there would be a gendarmerie intervention from 10 p.m., and that "we no longer had the presidency as interlocutor" of the university, which "contributed to generating a lot of fear", he explained.
“We left as a group and the police made a trap around us to take us to the sidewalk,” he explained.
A two-step exit
Some of the young people, however, remained in the building, according to students.
A video was circulating on social media claiming that 40 people were still in the university, being held back by the police.
A police source confirmed to AFP that there were still students inside, without specifying their number or the reason for their presence.
All finally left around midnight, reports France info.
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Tear gas and chair throwing: tension between police and students on the second day of the Sorbonne blockade
Outside, the police used tear gas in the evening to disperse demonstrators who had gathered near the Pantheon for the reception and regularization of refugee students, not far from the Sorbonne, according to a journalist from AFP on the spot.
Some formed small sporadic groups around the forces of order, which repelled them.
At midday, several hundred students, 400 according to the police headquarters, had gathered at the Place de la Sorbonne to participate in a general assembly with the students inside, but were blocked by a CRS cordon. .
The students at the windows had thrown objects such as trash cans or furniture, AFP noted.
The CRS had pushed the young people back into the square, causing a crowd movement and throwing tear gas, without causing any injuries.
Sciences Po evacuated by the far right
Since Wednesday, hundreds of students have been mobilizing in Paris, Nancy or Reims, to protest against the results of the first round of the presidential election and to alert on ecological and social issues.
At the Sorbonne, a general meeting was held on Wednesday after which a number of students decided to stay.
All of the sites of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (about ten, including that of Tolbiac) were "closed to students but open to staff" Thursday, according to the communication department.
A few streets away, at Sciences Po Paris, 150 students blocked the entrance to the school at 27 rue Saint-Guillaume on Thursday.
Banners read: “No quarter for fascists, no fascists in our neighborhoods” or “No to the extreme right”.
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“The courses scheduled today on this site have been switched to remote.
The other Sciences Po sites remain open and operating normally,” Sciences Po told AFP.
“We are here mainly to fight the far right, because today we are frightened by the percentage of votes Marine Le Pen received in the election,” explained Sarah Bonvalet to AFP. Younès, president of Unef Sciences Po. "Young people are faced with a false choice, two options which in both cases are harmful to them", added Baptiste, 22, a 3rd year student union member at Solidaires Sciences Po.
At around 3:30 p.m., 30 to 40 far-right activists armed with "pickaxe handles, umbrellas and hand gassers" attacked the students still present, who ran away uninjured, a- he also indicated.
"The blockade of Sciences Po has just been evacuated by us", tweeted later the Cocarde Étudiante (a student organization positioned on the far right), showing in a video of young people removing banners and barricades.