法国学生在多个城市的学校外焚烧垃圾桶、设置路障,抗议教室过度拥挤、教师短缺以及学校设施破败不堪。
French students have set fire to bins and erected blockades outside schools in several cities, protesting overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities.
据地方教育部门、县政府及工会代表的报告,周四在多所高中发生的抗议活动中,有多名校长受伤或遭到骚扰/袭击。
Several school principals were injured, harassed or assaulted during blockades at high schools on Thursday, according to reports from regional education authorities, prefectures and union representatives.
在法国,15至18岁的学生通常会在这些高中完成他们最后三年的中等教育。警方已在这些高中拘留了数百名抗议者。
Police have already detained hundreds of protesters at the lycees, which students aged 15 to 18 attend for their final three years of secondary education in France. At Marseille’s Victor Hugo high school, the teachers were inadvertently splashed as a student attempted to throw petrol into a rubbish bin, local authorities said.
当地官员称,在马赛维克多·雨果高中,一名学生试图将汽油倒入垃圾桶时,导致教师们被溅到了汽油上;此前检察官办公室曾表示教师们遭到了袭击并被“泼洒了汽油”。
Earlier, the prosecutor’s office had said the teachers had been assaulted and “doused in petrol”.
在马赛的另一所学校——圣埃克苏佩里高中,数百名年轻人围住了清晨前来灭火的消防车,迫使消防员逃离车辆后将其点燃。
At another school in the city, Saint-Exupery high school, hundreds of young people surrounded a firetruck that had arrived to put out a blaze in the morning, police said.
在南特,消防员在一所高中的入口处扑灭了火灾;当地教育部门称,此次集会“充斥着针对教师的暴力行为”。在斯特拉斯堡,当局为“限制暴徒和示威者的行动”而暂停了有轨电车的运行,学生们还烧毁了轨道上的障碍物。
The attackers forced the firefighters to flee the vehicle, then set it alight. In Nantes, firefighters extinguished a fire at a high school entrance following what regional education officials called a gathering “marked by violence towards staff”.
“每个教室里有多达35名学生。夏季气温高达35摄氏度(95华氏度),简直无法忍受!厕所数量严重不足,有些教室还漏水,”一名17岁的学生拉斐尔(为避免报复而隐去了自己的姓氏)在斯特拉斯堡的抗议活动中对法新社表示。
In Strasbourg, trams were halted to “restrict the movements of rioters and demonstrators”, and students burned barriers on tram tracks, authorities said.
“学校的建筑已经破败不堪,食堂空间太小;学校完全没有预算和资源,也缺乏足够的管理人员。”他的愤怒反映了自上周以来席卷法国的学生抗议浪潮——高中生的不满情绪逐渐演变成了全国性的动荡。
“There are 35 of us per classroom. With 35 degrees Celsius [95 degrees Fahrenheit] in summer, it’s unbearable. There aren’t enough toilets, and there are water leaks in some rooms,” Raphael, a 17-year-old who withheld his surname for fear of reprisals, told the AFP news agency outside a protest in Strasbourg. “The building is falling apart, the cafeteria is too small. There’s zero budget, zero resources, not enough supervisors.”
截至周四上午,法国约有340场示威活动在高中外举行,导致超过160所学校被迫关闭,警方表示。
His frustration echoes a wave of student anger that has spread across France since last week, as high school pupils protest and grievances snowball into nationwide unrest.
根据学生联合会的消息,大学生也加入了抗议活动,他们封锁了包括巴黎和马赛在内的约30所大学的入口。
Some 340 demonstrations were under way outside high schools by mid-morning on Thursday, with more than 160 schools shut down as a result, police said.
当局报告称有数十人受伤——其中一些人是因为被投掷的物体所伤,另一些人则是被警方使用的防暴装备击中而受伤的。
University students joined in, blocking access to about 30 campuses, including in Paris and Marseille, according to a student union.
内政部长洛朗·努涅斯表示,警方已对涉及三名学生的暴力行为指控展开内部调查。
Authorities have reported many dozens of injuries – some from thrown objects, others reportedly from police riot-control projectiles.
总理塞巴斯蒂安·莱科努召开紧急会议,并要求各部长取消即将进行的官方行程,以便政府能够集中精力应对这些抗议活动。
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said police have opened internal investigations into brutality allegations involving three students.
法国教育部长爱德华·杰弗雷表示,他将于周五分别与教师工会代表以及家长和学生组织会面。
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu convened a crisis meeting and asked ministers to cancel upcoming official travel so authorities could focus on the demonstrations, his office said.
这场动荡已经与明年5月总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙继任后的权力争夺紧密相关。政府指责极左翼政党“法国不屈党”煽动了这些抗议活动。
French Education Minister Edouard Geffray said that he would successively meet representative staff unions and parent and student associations on Friday. The unrest has become entangled in the race to succeed President Emmanuel Macron next May.
周三,总统候选人让-吕克·梅朗雄表示,他的政党“主张采取非暴力方式来表达诉求”,并批评政府的应对措施具有压迫性。
The government has accused the far-left France Unbowed party of encouraging the protests.
在法国里尔,一名学生在抗议活动中举着一块写有“我们想要的是高中毕业证书(BAK),而不是反犯罪措施(BAC)”的标语牌,要求政府增加学校的资源投入。[
Presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon said Wednesday that his party “called for nonviolent methods of struggle” and criticised the government’s response as repressive. A student holds a board reading, ‘We want the BAK [high school diploma], not the BAC [anti-criminality units]’ during a protest to demand more resources at school, in Lille, France [Jean-Francois Badias/AP]