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High school student demonstrations in France are drawing sharp criticism after CGT general secretary Sophie Binet wrote in Libération that no government since May 1968 has responded so harshly to a student mobilisation. Her comments have amplified debate over how authorities are handling the protests and renewed comparisons with the historic 1968 student movement.
- 2CGT chief compares government response to student protests with May 68●"Jamais depuis Mai 68, un gouvernement n’a répondu de la sorte à une mobilisation lycéenne", tribune de Sophie Binet, se
Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT union, has published a column in Libération denouncing the French government's handling of a nationwide high school student mobilisation. She writes that never since May 1968 has a government responded to a school protest movement in such a way, accusing it of answering social anger with force before addressing its causes.