On this sunny Friday, the eve of the Easter weekend, all is calm in the Latin Quarter.
Place de la Sorbonne, tourists and Parisians take their coffee on the terrace.
Only the rubbish strewn on rue Victor-Cousin, an
“Occupied Sorbonne”
banner still floating at a window and the presence of a few gendarmes and their trucks testify to the events of the previous days.
On a bench, two young women are talking.
“You would have seen the brothel yesterday here!”
The day of Thursday was indeed peppered with incidents.
Sorbonne students, angry after the results of the first round of the presidential election, tried to join their comrades already inside the premises to participate in a general assembly.
A project quickly cooled by the police, mobilized in front of the establishment since the morning.
Once the students were pushed back, security barriers were also installed.
This barrage displeased the young activists, who repeatedly insulted…
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