France’s basketball star Victor Wembanyama voiced his support on Thursday for French teenagers protesting conditions in the country’s schools. The Ministry of the Interior said 71,500 people took part in Thursday’s demonstrations, including 24,500 in the main Paris march centred on Place de la Bastille. I meant it,” Wembanyama added at the news conference.
But it’s chance, it’s luck. So I want to show my support. I went to high school in Nanterre, which was already a stronghold of ‘blocages’ back then,” he said, referring to student-led school blockades.
Concerns about state schools have helped prompt a number of France’s most significant protests in decades. They began last month at high schools in the poor northern suburbs of Paris, where anger over teacher absences and shabby facilities quickly evolved into a nationwide movement against inequality, weak public spending and falling standards.
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