PARIS：法國安全部隊並無接獲「與示威中的高中生對峙」嘅命令，總理於週三（10月7日）透過電視講話表示；連日示威引發嘅警方暴力指控不斷累積，呢場示威已經震撼整個國家。
自從要求提升中學條件嘅運動發起以來，已有數百名學生、警察同教職員受傷，逾6,500人被捕，當中大部分係未成年人。
在人權組織、工會同學生限於指控當局濫用武力之後，政府宣布暫停警方喺學生主導嘅示威中使用震撼手榴彈。
總理塞巴斯蒂安·勒庫諾（Sébastien Lecornu）喺週三晚間嘅電視講話中表示，法國唔能對高中生嘅關切採取漠視態度，承認「年輕人嘅憤怒並非無緣自來」。
佢否認警務部門有「要同年輕人對抗嘅命令」，並承諾政府喺十月底前提出一個應對呢場危機嘅方案。
Mais organisateurs urged fresh demonstrations on Thursday as several education unions called for new nationwide strikes.
“We know that if we stop making our voices heard, the movement will lose momentum,” said Marilou, a high school student in Fontainebleau, near Paris, who didn’t want to give her full name.
“We want real action, and until we get it, we’ll keep mobilising,” she told AFP.
Student protestors – who have complained of missing teachers, overloaded timetables, dilapidated classrooms and buildings that cannot cope with rising temperatures – have requested a meeting with Lecornu, saying they have costed proposals to present.
“I want to urge students – both high school and university – to stay mobilised starting tomorrow. Because the balance of power is on our side,” said student union leader Ryad Rani.
STUN GRENADES BANNED
A 15-year-old lost a hand on Monday after police fired a stun grenade, and Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told radio broadcaster RTL early on Wednesday that he had suspended the police use of stun grenades in response.
“I am suspending their use in the high school student protests until the facts of the incident have been clarified,” said Nunez.
He stressed that this suspension was “only for the high school student protests” and for “just long enough to understand what happened”.
Last week, a 14-year-old student in northwest Paris was hit in the face with a tear gas grenade at such close range that he lost several teeth.
A policeman was charged on Tuesday over that incident.
Police have opened 18 internal investigations into allegations of misconduct since the protests began, Nunez said.
MULTIPLE CRISES
In Wednesday’s address, Lecornu also promised to release diesel stocks in a bid to bring down fuel prices, and reiterated an aim to cut the country’s soaring debt to 5 per cent of GDP next year.
The French government is wrestling with multiple crises including the protests and its 2027 budget, as well as a looming election next year to choose Macron’s successor, with far-right candidate Marine Le Pen riding high in the polls.
“It took several children being maimed for life for Nunez to give up using grenades against high school students,” said Manuel Bompard, national coordinator of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI).
The government has blamed the LFI for stoking tensions around the protests.
While most schools reopened on Wednesday, more than 500 remained at least partially closed with students blocking doors with mounds of trash bins.
Several lawyers representing teens taken into police custody say they have faced physical violence and insults.
Ainoha Pascual, a lawyer representing three minors in Paris, said they had been “terrorised”.
“A very large majority arrive in custody injured”, having taken baton blows or being dragged on the ground, she added.
Prisca Ancion with the Collective for Judicial Action told AFP that every single high schooler arrested reported experiencing “an insult, a slap, having their head held down on the ground, chokeholds.”
