Paris Riots 2006: Summary, Sat. 11 Mar.

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For your inspection, a followup to French Students Clash With Police, Fri. 10 Mar., in a summary of news stories detailing events of the recent Paris student protests. In this post:

A nighttime raid against 200 protesting students at Paris's Sorbonne university increases tensions caused by the French government's attempts to address unemployment ... and highlights a deep rooted resistance to change within the French population.

Sorbonne protesters leave trashed offices and destroyed books.

French prime minister to attempt to diffuse student anger while implementing reforms.

France defends raid, use of tear gas on students.

French students revive spirit of 1968 protest movement.

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"This is what happens when you call for disorder."

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Reform Meets Resistance in Sorbonne Raid
PARIS (AP) -- A dramatic nighttime police raid to evict protesting students from Paris' best-known university has increased the furor over the conservative government's effort to reduce unemployment - and exposed how widespread resistance to change remains in France. Riot police stormed into...

Sorbonne left ransacked after French protests
PARIS (Reuters) -- Riot police stood guard at Paris's Sorbonne university after breaking up a three-day sit-in there on Saturday and a clean-up operation began as France tried to quell student protests over job reforms.

French prime minister in bid to defuse tension over jobs
PARIS (AFP) -- French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was set to try to defuse student anger after police stormed the Sorbonne university with teargas to smash protest against a controversial new labour law.

France defends raid on Sorbonne
(BBC) -- The French education minister has defended the use of force to evacuate almost 200 protesting students from the Sorbonne university in Paris.

Police teargas French elite students
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- French riot police used teargas on Saturday to break up a protest at Paris's Sorbonne university, which students had occupied to press the government to abandon its youth jobs plan, police and witnesses said.

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