Student protests spark fires and clashes in several French cities
Students set fire to a school lobby in Nantes and built burning barricades from garbage containers in Lille, while a school principal was splashed with petrol and injured at a lycée in Marseille.1
In Paris, protesters doused a school principal with petrol and ignited fires at two educational institutions, and in Dijon police deployed tear gas to disperse demonstrators, while in Marseille youths surrounded a fire truck, forced its abandonment and set it ablaze.1