Why are students protesting in France?
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“Everyone is deeply, deeply angry. We are completely fed up [with] the living conditions, the school conditions, the work conditions that we have,” says Alys Rowlands, a university student in Lille and also a member of Fédération Syndicale Étudiante. “The true violence is the violence of the state that we are being faced with all day, every day, all year. That’s the true violence: having no money, having difficulty finishing the month, having less and less help from the state, having to choose between eating and putting your heating on during the winter.”
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