More than 160,000 schoolchildren, students and trade unionists marched in cities across France as protests over high school education continued into a third week, according to The Guardian.
France’s interior ministry said 161,500 people had turned out across the country on Tuesday, after more than 260,000 last Tuesday and 75,000 on Thursday. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joined an early morning protest outside the Lycée Paul Éluard in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis and said: “Young people are not being included in the conversation.” Riot police fired teargas at the end of Tuesday’s marches in Nantes and near the Montparnasse area of Paris, and an estimated 90% of France’s universities were disrupted, according to the newspaper.