Police evict pro-Palestinian students who had locked themselves in the Science Po center in Paris
The police have entered the main headquarters of Science Po, the political studies institute in Paris, to evict the students who were locked up since yesterday in protest of the war in Gaza.
The action took place without confrontations and at noon, in the midst of a large police deployment, fifty students protested surrounded by officers on a sidewalk on Saint Germain Boulevard, next to the educational center.
“Long live the struggle of the Palestinian people,” the students chant, among other songs. Several wear the traditional Palestinian scarf. A sign reads: “The children of Gaza thank us.”
Science Po is the nursery of French elites and an institution with global influence. On Thursday, May 2, several students occupied a room in the building and several of them began a hunger strike after, in a meeting between the students and the center’s management, they rejected the demand to renounce agreements with Israeli universities. .
Hicham, a 22-year-old master’s student and one of those who started the hunger strike, told EL PAÍS that the police have dragged some students along the ground and torn down flags. “I will continue with the hunger strike,” he said.
