The head of the LR list François-Xavier Bellamy and the LFI deputy Louis Boyard Tuesday May 7 during a blockage in front of Sciences Po
POLITICS – It is not the “ Battle of the Titans “, but the clash of parliamentarians. The head of the LR list in the European elections, François-Xavier Bellamy and the LFI deputy Louis Boyard had a heated exchange this Tuesday, May 7 in front of Sciences Po Paris, once again blocked by pro-Palestinian rallies.
“The French people are not complicit with those who support Hamas today, with those who excuse the worst”launched the LR MEP to the address of the LFI deputy. “I came here to be the voice of all the students who do not want to see Sciences Po reduced to these permanent blockages, to this permanent exploitation, to this pharmacy of La France insoumise that rue Saint-Guillaume has become,” he added.
“You go from pretext to pretext every time to never talk about the fact that there is a genocide in Gaza”, retorted Louis Boyard. “ These students are asking for peace, a ceasefire and you come to insult them, say anything » he said in front of the right-wing candidate, while the scene turned into a dialogue of the deaf.
The leader of the LR list also posted the video of the sequence on his X account (ex-Twitter), as well as the following message: “ That’s enough. We must no longer cede an inch of ground to those who sow chaos. I came here to say that Sciences Po, that our lecture halls, will never belong to the extreme left which betrays all the values of the French people “.
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Schools blocked, exams canceled…
Shortly after, around 2 p.m., the police evacuated the hundred people gathered in front of the historic premises of Sciences Po, made up of students from the school, around twenty employees of the establishment and around thirty students from Sorbonne University.
At the start of the morning, the police had already had to intervene to “ unblock the two main entrances on rue Saint Guillaume, allowing the entry of students”, and made two arrests, indicated the police headquarters. Trash cans, street furniture and around twenty students obstructed the entrance to the building.
The exams which started at 9 a.m. were “launched normally” indicated the management of Sciences Po. On the Le Havre site, however, the partials had to be canceled on Tuesday due to a blockage. Classes have ended since last Friday.
The police had already intervened this Monday in Paris in front of the establishment to dislodge activists mobilized for Gaza who had set up tents. Sciences Po students have also started a hunger strike since last weekend. There are currently 13 of them, according to management, which claims to have informed them of “the possibility of treatment by the health center from Friday morning”.
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