French schoolchildren have been treated like violent criminals – for telling the truth | Rokhaya Diallo

To protest against the shameful conditions in some French schools is entirely legitimate. The government’s response is not As a secondary school pupil in 1994, I took part in protests against a reform that would have allowed French employers to pay young people below the minimum wage. Our campaign was successful, but if we had had to face the terrifying police response unleashed on student protesters in France over recent weeks, I would have stayed at home. A 14-year-old boy, Eden, suffere