So the students at Lycée Victor Hugo are building barricades outside their school this morning. [x]
But why?
Just in case you’re still wondering – high school students in Paris are protesting about foreign students being deported!
A fifteen year old Roma girl called Leonarda Dibrani and her family were deported to Kosovo earlier in the month, which has sparked demonstrations all over Paris. Basically, people are angry about the anti-immigration rhetoric of some in the interior ministry (cough Manuel Valls cough) and the case of Leonarda, along with that of another student who was deported to Armenia, has pushed things over the edge.
SO YES BASICALLY BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO ROMA STUDENTS AND THE REST OF THE STUDENTS ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT AND CONSEQUENTLY, BARRICADES.
Hell yeah, then. Get shit done! Thanks for the explanation, I hadn’t seen anything about it yet.