New clashes erupt between police and student protesters in Paris

Clashes between law enforcement officers and participants in student protests again occurred in the French capital on October 13, a correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti news agency reports.

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So, on the Boulevard Invalides, police used water cannons against demonstrators. In Vauban Square, where the march ended, the confrontation broke out with renewed vigor: although a significant part of the participants had already left the place, the most radical people began to throw various objects at law enforcement officers. In response, law enforcement officers used tear gas and began to disperse the remaining, informs BFMTV.

According to the Interior Ministry, 161,500 people took to the streets across France on Tuesday, 41,500 of them in Paris. The Inter-Union Youth Organization, in turn, announced 480,000 participants.

Today, the fifth round of demonstrations of students and high school students, dissatisfied with insufficient funding of the educational sphere, is taking place across the country.