‘We just want to be listened to’: student protests shut schools across France

Government struggling to deal with worst crisis in months after being taken by surprise by massive demonstrationsAs dozens of school pupils sat on top of a pile of wheelie bins blocking a high school entrance in north-eastern Paris, Sophia, 17, was on the frontline of the barricade, when she would normally have been…

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