French police forcefully removed dozens of students from the Sorbonne University after pro-Palestine students held a sit-in.
Agence France-Presse reported that French police stormed into the Sorbonne University to evacuate pro-Palestine activists from a classroom at the prestigious Parisian university, less than 24 hours after Prime Minister Gabriel Attal pledged that there would never be the right to disrupt French universities.
The protesters chanted “Rafah, Rafah, we are with you” and slogans denouncing the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip. The French police attacked a number of them and arrested 39 .
Meanwhile, dozens of supporters of the Palestinian cause were gathering near the security cordon that the police had imposed around the university, chanting “Palestine will live, Palestine will achieve victory”.
This protest at the prestigious Sorbonne University comes a few days after a number of protests were held at Sciences Po University in Paris.
These pro-Palestinian protests, which also reject the Israeli aggression on Gaza, started in American universities from Columbia University to California and elsewhere. The protests were suppressed by the US police.
Rawaa Ghanam