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Nearly 5,000 arrests in a week as France cracks down on protesting high schoolers

Original: 🛑 # Répression des # lycéens : anatomie d’une terreur policière Avec près de 5 000 interpellations en une semaine, le go

In France, close to 5,000 people have been taken into police custody in a single week as the government responds to anger among high school students with what critics call an exceptional repressive offensive. Commenters say police, courts and prefectures are all being mobilised against lycéens, and the scale of the arrests is drawing accusations of police terror and heavy-handed treatment of young protesters.

Why now: The sheer scale of the arrests in one week has sparked outrage and debate over the government's hard-line response to student protests.

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