‘We’re not asking for luxury’: school protesters in Paris suburb feel abandoned by French state
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Students say they are desperate to get back to class but conditions are so bad that the protests must continue On a normal school day, Mohammed, 17, wakes at 6am, cares for his younger siblings to help his single mother who works as a security guard, then takes two crowded buses and a local train to get to his high school in Sevran, a low-income banlieue town in the suburbs north-east of Paris. “There aren’t enough…
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