In Paris, even less numerous, young people mobilized “until withdrawal”
As the rain begins to fall on the avenue de l’Opéra, the interface stands ready. This time placed at the head of the procession, the young people organize themselves and sing – “Angry students, fed up with the hassle” – to try to motivate the troops. At 2:30 p.m., the sun has returned, the march finally begins. “Mashed there are not many people”, plague a student. But the young people present do not lose their motivation. “We will go until withdrawal, that’s for sure”slips a student, activist at the Raised Fist. “Constitutional or not, we don’t want this law”sing the students. “For me, we are only at the beginning”says Marie, a student at Paris-Saclay. “What is certain is that we have been facing an unprecedented mobilization for three months”underlines the young woman.
Moving away from the leading procession, we find a second young procession which parades not far from the banners of student and high school students’ unions. Behind the banner of the Buffon high school parade about thirty students who blocked their establishment “for the first time in 10 years”assures, Ephram Strzalka-Beloeil, vice-president of La Voix Lycéenne.
“It is true that the number of blocked high schools is falling”. 200, this April 13, according to the high school student union. “But these are new profiles who are in the street”underlines the activist, who also recalls “that a number of high school students are already on vacation. This is an honorable figure, when we are already on the twelfth day of mobilizations “. For Ephram Strzalka-Beloeil, regardless of the decision of the Constitutional Council – even if it is not very optimistic – high school students will continue to mobilize. “Against the pension reform but also Parcoursup, the new baccalaureate, the announcements on the professional high school… so many reasons to continue to take to the streets”he assures. “The government can no longer count on the youth, the street yes”.