France braces for fresh student demonstrations as Macron calls for ‘respect’

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France is preparing for renewed student demonstrations over poor conditions in high schools, after students blocked entrances at hundreds of lycees. Riot police have been deployed, and some protests have turned violent; President Emmanuel Macron called for “respect.”

Students have blocked entrances to hundreds of lycees — high schools for children 15 to 18 — since late September to rail against poor classroom conditions, with squads of riot police deployed and occasionally violent clashes erupting