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Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

‘We’re infantilised or demonised’: French students criticise Gaza protests crackdown

Young people standing on a street, many wearing face masks and keffiyeh scarves, some holding a Palestinian flag
Students protesting at Sciences Po in Paris against the war in Gaza. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Jack, 22, a student in public administration, was dragged out of his university building by the arms and legs on Friday, as police forcibly removed several dozen students who had been occupying Paris’s Sciences Po university overnight in a protest against civilian deaths in Gaza.

“We’ll keep going,” said the French-American student in his final year at the prestigious political science school, whose alumni include the president, Emmanuel Macron. “This is about speaking out against a genocide, it’s an international movement. We occupied the building peacefully.”

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