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When the ultra-left rules the daily life of Paris 8 University

2023-04-12T18:41:38.862Z


REPORT - Courses prohibited, "floor notes" ... The challenge to the pension reform is disorganizing the university of Saint-Denis.


30 minutes from the center of Paris, the "Saint-Denis Université" metro station opens onto the Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis University.

Around the square that separates them, a Vélib' station and a bakery.

A place of comings and goings, where students do not linger.

In this period of mobilization against the pension reform, no physical blocking of the university.

Whoever wants to enter, provided they show their bag to the security guards.

In the entrance hall, the decor is planted.

Under a colorful banner, where one can read "

Party of mobilized staff, tap retirement, not working is the foot

", a few people, in their late fifties, hold the "strike picket".

Staff who have been living there for weeks.

In the background, we hear Renaud or Manu Chao.

"

There's hot coffee for the demonstrations

, ”says one of them to a student who passes on his way, half-surprised, half-amused.

Here, we sell neck warmers and saline - the essentials of…

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Source: lefigaro

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