FRANCE – After students took action and occupied universities in Paris, now several high schools were blocked this Tuesday in Paris against the second round. At Lycée Lavoisier, there are about thirty of them determined to express their anger: “The youth f* the national front!”
“Anti-Anti-capitalists” is chanted on the side of the Lycée Lamartine. Many high school students flock and the blockade is reinforced in a determined atmosphere! At Lycee Balzac the same determination is heard, and the are found again this morning to block against the second round of election.
On the 16th of April, thousands of people took to the streets of Paris to protest against far-right ahead of presidential run-off. “We are here to say no to the far right. (…) for society, freedoms but also the climate. It would be a real regression if it came to power,” said Jean-François Julliard , Managing Director of Greenpeace France. He was one of several thousand people who protested in Paris.
One sign in Paris recalled: “2002 was no, 2022 is still no”, a reference to the “republican front” which saw millions mobilise to re-elect Jacques Chirac and keep out the far-right former “Front National” leader Jean-Marie Le Pen who had made it to the second round.
