‘Students don’t injure people – they injure things,’ says protesterpublished at 14:01 BST
14:01 BST
Mark Lowen
Reporting from Marseille
Joanna is a university student, but went to high school in a Parisian suburb, where the student protests began.
Asked why she is taking part in demonstrations today, she tells me: “We are protesting for better conditions of learning for our students, high schoolers.”
Joanna says there is a lack of teachers and lack of replacements for teachers who are sick, and therefore “we don’t have enough teachers to learn”.
On the conditions inside her high school, she recalls one incident where a roof fell on some students and says there were also “a lot of floods” and rats, while some students didn’t eat because meals were too expensive.
Joanna describes the police response to protesters as “really violent and really aggressive”, adding it is “really escalating”.
“Police get violent and so people respond with violence.”
She says high school pupils have been throwing objects on fire, but claims “if they don’t do that they are not heard” and “students don’t injure people they injure things”.