Riot police use teargas on protesters at Paris college (AFP)

[Up2Late]

(French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is going to spark more Riots if he continues allows these tactics to be used.)

Riot police use teargas on protesters at Paris college

14/03/2006 07h51

PARIS (AFP) - Riot police in Paris used tear gas to disperse students protesting at a new youth jobs contract, after Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin refused to give way to a growing opposition movement. Several hundred school and university students tried to storm the College de France, an elite research institution in the capital's Latin Quarter, with dozens of them breaking into the building, before being repelled by police.

Groups of students hurled stones and drink cans at the security forces as they tried to evict them, with calm returning at around 1700 GMT. Around 50 protesters managed to stay inside, blocking the main entrance to the building and unfurling a protest banner across it, as police -- unable to enter the premises without authorization -- looked on from the street.

The riot police finally forced them out, without major incident, before midnight, breaking in at the request of the college administrator. The protesters emerged flashing victory signs and chanting "police everywhere, justice nowhere".

Earlier police fired teargas in front of the college entrance, to disperse the crowd gathered there, as they came under fire from stones and beer cans. The nearby Sorbonne university, centre of the May 1968 student uprising, remained cordoned off after police used force to evict several hundred protesters from its buildings at the weekend.

(more at link below)

<http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/060314073256.nmsbc5ee.html>

[Up2Late]

1. kick n/t

:kick:

[High Plains]

2. Those violent Christians are at it again!

[struggle4progress]

3. French Students by the Thousands Protest New Labor Law

By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Published: March 14, 2006

PARIS, March 14 — Tens of thousands of students marched through Paris and other French cities today, stepping up their opposition to a new law that makes it easier to hire — and fire — young workers.

In Paris, university and high school students, joined by teachers, workers, union members and Communist Party members, marched across town stopping traffic as they chanted slogans like "We're not cannon fodder" and "We're not young flesh for the boss." At one location near the Sorbonne, in the heart of the Latin Quarter, police clashed with small groups of protesters, dispersing them with tear gas.

More than half of France's 84 public universities remained either completely or partially closed today because of student blockades, according to the Ministry of National Education. <snip>

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/international/europe/14cnd-france.html