Almost 6,900 people have been arrested since the beginning of the student protests in France about two weeks ago, 86% of them minorswhile legal actions have been initiated against 2,376, according to figures announced this Friday by the Ministry of Justice.
In total, 1,547 people have been presented to a judge, 1,239 of them minors and 21 were placed in provisional detention, six of them minors, Justice added in a statement in which it specified that the balance was closed this Thursday afternoon.
This excludes those detained in the break-up of the demonstration that at the end of this Thursday confronted violent groups with the police, but also those that occurred during the morning of this Friday, when the blockades of some educational establishments continue.
According to the data of the Ministry of Education141 institutes remain closed, of the 3,700 in the country, compared to 157 the day before, which represents less than 4% of the centers.
The Executive tries to counteract the student mobilization with a series of announcements, among which the hiring of 3,000 teachers stands out to alleviate the unreplaced casualties, one of the main demands of the high school student unions.
Teachers are contacted to join educational centers
The head of Education, Edward Geffraywho visited today an institute in the region of ParisHe assured that teachers are already being contacted so that they join educational centers as soon as possible, “starting next week.”
He regretted the damage that has been reported in educational centers and that, he said, has deprived “tens of thousands of students” of being able to follow classes.
In parallel, it was noted that the digital platform launched by the Government To receive complaints from students, he has already collected 66,000 contributions, something he considered “a sign of democratic maturity.”
