Pro-Palestinian students clash with police at Paris’s Sciences Po university

By Hafsa Alami

PARIS (AA) – Police intervened at Sciences Po university in Paris early Tuesday to disperse students protesting the school administration’s decision not to terminate its academic partnerships with Israeli universities.

Two students were arrested around 9.30 a.m. (0730GMT).

“They were placed in police custody for rebellion and participation in a demonstration while hiding their faces and in a gathering despite summons to disperse,” the Paris prosecutor’s office told local media.

Students gathered again in the afternoon to denounce the arrest of their classmates, chanting “Police everywhere, no justice” and “Release our peers.”

Holding banners saying “Rafah, all eyes on you,” around 20 students from Sorbonne University joined the protest to affirm their common demands and denounce the bombing of the city in southern Gaza since the previous night by the Israeli army.

Clashes broke out between the students and the police, who demanded that they leave.

Some students confirmed to Anadolu that two students have been on a hunger strike since Thursday.