Live: Macron meets with student representatives and law enforcement ahead of new protests
Özet haber: French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting with high school student representatives Friday for the first time since the month-long student protests over teacher shortages and run-down schools began. The president is also holding a "defence council" to prepare for Saturday's planned demonstrations. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.
A 30-year-old French woman filed a complaint against a police officer after being assaulted during a protest in Le Mans, nortwestern France, according to local media. A video shared on social media shows the young woman being pulled by her hair and dragged across the ground by a police officer, before being kicked. “I was holding my little sign like any other protester,” she said.
“I don’t think I posed a danger to myself or to anyone else.”
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu will be traveling to Limoges Friday, a city particularly hard-hit by the violence on October 17, when its city hall was set on fire.
The investigation into the fire gained momentum on Thursday with the arrest of a second suspect in the Creuse department, following the arrest on Tuesday of a first man in the Haute-Vienne department who is now suspected of attempted murder of police officers.
French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with representatives from high school student groups at 3pm Friday ahead of a day of planned demonstrations that will take place under heavy security.
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