周二黎明前，在巴黎市中心的索菲-热尔曼中学外，数百名青少年拖着带轮垃圾桶、金属路障以及购物车，在校门口堆起一道路障。
Before dawn on Tuesday outside the Lycée Sophie-Germain in central Paris, hundreds of teenagers dragged wheelie bins, metal barriers and shopping trolleys to build a barricade outside the front door of their secondary school.
这些学生爬上堆成小山的杂物堆，举着横幅呼吁增加教育经费、促进法国教育领域的平等。他们也在抗议法国防暴警察——人权组织指责警方对青少年使用了过度武力，而这场抗议活动正迅速演变为几十年来规模最大的青少年抗议运动。
Climbing to the top of the piles of bins, pupils held banners calling for more funding and greater equality in French schools. But they were also protesting against French riot police, who have been accused by human rights groups of using disproportionate force against children in what is fast becoming the biggest youth protest movement in decades.
“所有人都讨厌警察！”一群15、16岁的学生齐声喊道。据法国政府统计，近几日的冲突已导致至少215名青少年、715名警察以及85名教职员工受伤。
“Everyone hates the police,” chanted a group of 15- and 16-year-olds. At least 215 teenagers, 715 police officers and 85 teaching staff have been injured in clashes in recent days, according to the government.
“我们只是拿着带轮垃圾桶的青少年，而警察却配备重武器，这完全不成比例，”17岁的莉维亚说道。她当时正在巴黎北部的一所中学学习戏剧，不愿透露真名。“法国的警察极其暴力。这就是国家暴力，看到警察可以随意针对儿童实在令人发指。必须记住，这种暴力是制度化的，是经过策划且蓄意为之的。”目前已有10起针对警方暴力行为的调查正在进行，这些暴力事件据称涉及警察使用武器：一名15岁少年因此失去了一只手，另一名少年失去了一只眼睛，还有一名男孩的下颌和牙齿严重受损，正如其母亲所说，他在医院里连用吸管喝东西都困难。
“We’re teenagers with wheelie bins, and the police have heavy weapons, it’s totally mismatched,” said Livia, 17, who was studying theatre at a lycée in northern Paris and did not want her real name published. “The police are extremely violent in France. This is state violence and it’s horrible seeing police allowed to target children. It’s important to remember this is institutionalised violence, it’s planned and deliberate.”Ten investigations into possible police brutality are under way after injuries allegedly involving the use of police weapons, including one 15-year-old who lost his hand, another who lost his eye and a boy whose jaw and teeth were shattered, leaving him, as his mother said, barely able to eat with a straw in hospital.
“警方的执法方式简直灾难性，很多人被武器弄伤——有个男孩还失明了，太可怕了，”17岁的莉莉（化名）说道。她当时正在读高三，主修社会科学。她参加抗议活动是为了争取更多教育经费，因为她认为当前的教育体系存在歧视性，导致贫困家庭的孩子处于劣势。“我的父母支持我走上街头参加抗议。他们很担心警方的暴力行为，但也说如果我被捕，他们会来警察局把我接走。”
“The policing is catastrophic, people have been mutilated by weapons – one boy has lost an eye – it’s horrible,” said Lily, 17 (not her real name), who was studying social sciences in her final year of school and demonstrating for more funding in what she called a discriminatory education system that left poorer children behind. “My parents support me being on the barricades and at the protests. They’re worried about the policing, but they said they’d come and get me from the police station if I was arrested.”
周围的青少年们举着纸板标语牌，抗议使用催泪瓦斯和部署防暴警察。其中一块横幅上写着：“对高中生使用催泪瓦斯的国家是软弱的国家。”另一块则写着：“该惩罚性侵犯者，而不是孩子”，暗指需要制定更完善的法律来打击性暴力行为。还有一块横幅上写着：“我们并非来闹事的。”这场始于巴黎郊区一所低收入社区学校的抗议运动规模空前，如今已蔓延至全国，令政府措手不及。
Teenagers nearby held up cardboard signs protesting against the use of teargas and riot police. “A state that gases high school students is a weak state,” read one banner. “Gas rapists, not children,” said another reference to calls for betters laws against sexual violence. Another banner read: “Not here to riot.”The unprecedented protest movement that began outside one school in a low-income Paris suburb has spread across the country, taking the government by surprise.
由于学生们抗议教师短缺、校舍破败以及班级人数过多等问题，数百所高中被迫设置路障并关闭。司法部称，自抗议活动开始以来，已有5,060人被捕，其中87%为未成年人。另有1,800多人遭到起诉，其中包括1,483名未成年人，但司法部并未说明具体的罪名。此外，有790起案件被撤销。政府方面透露，共有24所学校遭到纵火或洗劫。
Hundreds of high schools have been barricaded and forced to close as pupils protest against teacher shortages, crumbling buildings and overcrowded classes. The justice ministry said 5,060 people had been arrested since the protests began, 87% of them being minors. More than 1,800 people had been prosecuted, including 1,483 minors, the ministry said, without specifying the crimes. It said 790 cases had been dismissed. The government said 24 schools had been burned or ransacked.
“从教20多年来，我从未见过规模如此庞大的抗议活动，”索菲-热尔曼高中的一位教师说道。他计划于周二下午参加在巴黎举行的示威活动。“巴黎市中心的学生们展现出了极强的团结精神，他们声援那些就读于条件恶劣得多的郊区学校的学生。青少年之间这种团结互助的精神，完全颠覆了‘当今时代人们都自私自利’这一说法。没人知道这场抗议会持续多久。”预计周二下午，数万名学生、工会成员及家长将走上街头，在巴黎、图卢兹、尼斯和波尔多等地声援抗议活动，防暴警察也已严阵以待。
“In more than 20 years of teaching, I’ve never seen protests this big,” said one teacher at Sophie-Germain high school who planned to join the Paris demonstration on Tuesday afternoon. “The students in central Paris have shown a great sense of solidarity with those in the Paris suburbs who face much worse conditions in their schools. There’s a feeling of solidarity and generosity between teenagers that flies in the face of the notion that we live in an era of selfishness. No one knows how long this will go on for.”Tens of thousands of students, trade unionists and parents are expected to march in support of the protests across France on Tuesday afternoon, including in Paris, Toulouse, Nice and Bordeaux, with riot police on alert.
16岁的伊莎贝拉表示，从事影视与音乐行业的父母全力支持她。“我们这些年轻人仅仅因为试图表达意见，就遭到了催泪瓦斯攻击。过去人们总说学校是实现社会公平的途径，可如今事实并非如此。巴黎郊区的青少年永远无法获得与市中心学生同等的机会。正因如此，我们今天才站在这里。”
Isabella, 16, said she had the backing of her parents, who work in film and music. “Young people have been teargassed for doing nothing but trying to express their opinion. Everybody told us that school was the great leveller, but today that is not the case at all. A teenager in the banlieue [suburbs] of Paris is never going to have the same opportunities as a student from the city centre. That’s why we’re here today.”
即将毕业、立志学习英语的17岁少年莱昂内尔说：“我们的目的并非制造骚乱或破坏公物，只是想和平抗议而已。”这些青少年还齐声高唱反对玛丽娜·勒庞的歌曲。作为2027年总统选举中的极右翼反移民候选人，勒庞在马克龙卸任之际的支持率居高不下。许多青少年对此次选举深感担忧。“我们也是在抗议极右势力的崛起，”艾斯琳说道。
Lionel, 17, who was in his final year at school and hoped to study English, said: “The aim isn’t to riot or smash things up, we just want to protest peacefully.”Teenagers also chanted songs against Marine Le Pen, the far-right, anti-immigration candidate in the 2027 presidential election, who is high in the polls as Emmanuel Macron steps down after a decade in office. Many teenagers were worried about the election. “We’re also protesting against the growth of the far right,” said Aislinn.
17岁的贾斯汀从黎明前就一直在路障旁，她说她希望抗议活动能够继续下去，并发展成为一场“大规模”运动。“多年来，法国年轻人一直存在心理健康危机，对破旧的学校和教育系统的压力感到愤怒。我们需要政府倾听我们的意见并做出根本性的改变。”学生的名字已更改。
Justine, 17, who had been at the barricade since before dawn, said she hoped the protest would continue and grow into a “massive” movement. “For years, there has been a mental health crisis among young people in France and anger at rundown schools and the stresses of the education system. We need the government to listen to us and make radical change.”Students’ names have been changed.