23 March 2006

Paris and beyond: Students continue to mobilise

Thursday 23 March
"As we speak..."
News about the anti-CPE mobilisation
18h47
Teargas fired and arrests made as police clear Angers train station by force.
18h33
Situation in Paris appears to have calmed substantially.
18h28
Sky news footage now showing Riot police charging protesters by the Seine. One protestor appeared to fall from a 40 foot wall to the side of the Seine. We cannot confirm this at this moment in time.
18h20
Riot now being shown live on SKY news- hundreds fighting CRS riot police.
18h05
Violent confrontations between hundreds of youths and the CRS riot police in the Boulevard d’Invalides according the tf1.
17h50
Between 104,000 (police figure) and 210,000 (organisers figures) marching in Paris, where the demonstration has arrived at its finishing point of the Esplanade d’Invalides. This figure is up from last Thursdays students dmeonstration, which was estimated at being between 33,000 - 120,000 strong.
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