Students block the entrance to their high school in Montpellier to show their support for the Palestinians

Les élèves devant le lycée Joffre depuis ce matin. Midi libre – jean-michel mart

Depuis six heures, une centaine d’élèves du lycée Joffre bloquent les accès à l’établissement afin de manifester leur soutien au peuple palestinien et leur opposition à la ligne politique de la France sur le sujet.

"Palestine will win, Palestine will live". Since 6 o'clock this morning, around a hundred students from Joffre high school have been blocking access to the establishment in order to show their support for the Palestinians. The meeting was organized on social networks and containers were installed on the Esplanade side to prevent the entry of high school students.

An enlargement to Jules-Guesde ?

Students in prep classes currently taking exams are, however, authorized to enter the high school grounds. "We are opposed to the French state line on the subject. We must stop the delivery of weapons to Israel" explains a student. "This is the conflict that the’ we talk the most between us. We have access to images without filter, quite raw which clearly show the situation" added Gabriel.

This operation responds to a national slogan launched by the High School Union for this week. "Each high school organizes itself as it wants. It's about following the student movement that started several weeks ago" he continues. origin of this blockage is to last all day. An expansion to the Jules-Guesde high school is also planned.