After Sciences Po Paris and the Sorbonne, will other higher education establishments be the scene of pro-Palestinian mobilizations? Nothing suggests, for the moment, a slowdown in the movement while Mathilde Panot, the leader of the LFI deputies, called for a rally on Tuesday April 30 when she should be summoned for “apology of terrorism”. It is held near the Paris court and the premises of the judicial police, in the 17th arrondissement of the capital.
“What is happening in France is an unprecedented authoritarian headlong rush,” declared the member for Val-de-Marne. “You are participating in an intolerable abuse of power in this country, in an attack on freedom of expression and opinion”she also called to the attention of “those who summon her”. Follow our live stream.
Rima Hassan “calls for mobilization not only in the faculties, but throughout France”. The 32-year-old lawyer, in an eligible position on the LFI list for the European elections, is also summoned on Tuesday. On Monday, she spoke on France 2 about “uprising” to support the students who demonstrated at Sciences Po Paris, and maintained the qualifier “genocide” on the situation in Gaza.
Universities must remain “a place of debate” but without blockages, judges the Minister of Higher Education. “It is important that our universities remain a place of debate, but (…) a structured debate, a concerted debate, not a blockage”declared Sylvie Retailleau on Tuesday, in the “4 Vs”, on France 2. A handful of establishments were targeted by actions: in addition to Sciences Po Paris and the Sorbonne, an attempt was quickly stopped, Monday, at the university, said the minister.
The Ile-de-France region cuts its subsidies to Sciences Po Paris. The LR president of the Ile-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, announced on Monday that she had “decided to suspend all funding from the Region intended for Sciences Po until serenity and security are restored to the school“.
Demonstrators dislodged from the Sorbonne. The police entered the Sorbonne on Monday to evacuate pro-Palestinian activists who had set up tents inside the university buildings. The police headquarters mentioned a “operation, which lasted only a few minutes” And “was done peacefully, without incident” while dislodged demonstrators spoke of an evacuation “quite brutal”.