The interior Ministry of France called the number of participants of student protests

Protests by student and trade union organizations against insufficient funding and other problems in the field of education in France attracted 161.5 thousand participants across the republic. It's from sb.by.

According to TASS, this is reported by the TV channel TF1 with reference to the interior Ministry of France. The most mass protests took place in Paris, where two demonstrations gathered a total of 41.5 thousand people. Authorities emphasize that the scale of protests has decreased significantly compared to last week, when 266,000 people took to the streets of French cities on October 6, of which 56,000 were in Paris.

For its part, Union Etudiante, a student organization that organizes the demonstrations, reported the participation of 480,000 people in demonstrations across the country. This is 30,000 more than she said last week.

According to the French Ministry of Education, 94.2% of lyceums (higher schools) worked on the morning of October 13, with 214 closed. In addition, only 4.5% of teachers in schools supported the strike declared by trade unions. France’s Ministry of Higher Education told radio station Franceinfo that protests on Tuesday interrupted the educational process in 35% of universities.

Greta Thunberg joins new French school protest