Police fire teargas as hundreds of thousands join student protests over crumbling schools | DW News

There have been renewed clashes with police in multiple French cities as tens of thousands join nationwide school student protests by pupils angry about underfunded schools. Parents and trade unions joined the students. The High School students' union said more than half of the country's schools were blockaded or would close for the day. We speak to DW's Paris correspondent Lisa Louis.

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00:00 Nationwide student protests in France
00:24 Students demand more investments in schools
01:02 Protests have turned into national crisis
02:04 Politicians blame "ultraviolent elements"
02:29 DW Correspondent Lisa Louis reports from Paris
03:43 How powerful is the movement becoming?
04:48 What President Macron's potential successors are saying about the protests

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