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More than 400 detained as police and students clash over class sizes, exhausting timetables and staff shortagesMore than 400 people, most of them children, have been detained in France on Tuesday after teenagers across the country blockaded their schools in protest at class sizes, teacher shortages and long timetables.Interior minister Laurent Nunez told BFM TV: “440 were detained across national territory. We don’t have the final tally yet, but I’m told two-thirds led to police custody.” Continue reading...
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Students have been protesting conditions and resources in high schools since last week.

More than 400 people, mainly minors, were arrested on Tuesday, the country's interior minister says.

The ban is part of a number of proposals that must be approved in parliament within 30 days.

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