French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a meeting at the Élysée Palace on the mass protests by lycée students. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez and National Education Minister Édouard Geffray will take part, according to infohub.kz.
According to sources cited by BFMTV, the meeting will be held after a third wave of mass demonstrations joined by parents, teachers, students and union representatives.
The student association Union étudiante estimates that 450,000 people took part in protests across France on October 6. The Interior Ministry gives a different figure — 256,000.
The Education Ministry reported that classes were fully or partially suspended that day at 891 of 3,700 lycées. The statistics take into account all reasons for the suspension of classes.
Lycée students complain about the poor condition of school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, overloaded schedules and the lack of substitute teachers. Another source of discontent is inequality, which they link to the Parcoursup university admissions system.
The October 6 demonstrations took place under heightened security. They were preceded by several days of tension and clashes.
According to the prime minister's office, 215 students have been injured since the protests began. It claims that the "vast majority" were injured as a result of accidents or the actions of outsiders.
Last week in Tours, a 16-year-old lycée student lost the sight in one eye while a school was being blockaded. On Monday, October 5, in Lens, a grenade explosion tore off the hand of a 15-year-old teenager.
Speaking in the National Assembly on October 6, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu rejected any "political instructions for police repression." He said that "accidents can happen" and accused the left-wing party La France Insoumise of inflaming tensions.