Violent protests in France, the government suspends classes until Friday

The Prime Minister of France, Sébastien Lecornu, spoke in parliament this afternoon about the unrest in the country’s schools.

Classes will be suspended from tomorrow morning until Friday, Lecornu’s government announced.

This is being done to “allow each management team, each school principal, to have time for internal democracy within the high schools,” Lecornu told the delegates in the National Assembly.

The Prime Minister also condemned the “extreme violence” that he said has knocked “at the door of the high schools,” which he “unconditionally condemned.”

A total of 215 students and 85 education staff have been injured so far since the start of the protests, according to Lecornu.