The French Police expelled several students from Sorbonne University in France after pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Monday seized the main courtyard of the university.
The students were protesting at the university, located in Paris, joining students worldwide denouncing what they call their "school's complicity with Israel's war on Gaza."
According to a report in The Times if Israel, around 50 protestors erected tents in the Sorbonne University courtyard on Monday in solidarity with Palestinians.
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Sorbonne students said that they set up the tents like in several US universities trying all that they can to raise awareness about what is happening in Palestine and the alleged ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Lorelia Frejo, a graduate student at the Sorbonne who joined a protest outside the university, told the Associated Press that police used force to remove her peers from the courtyard.
“They were peaceful and police took them out with no explanation,” Frejo said.
The protestors unveiled a giant Palestinian flag and chanted slogans in support of Palestinians in Gaza as Israel continued its military operation following the October 7 Hamas attacks.
The report said that around 100 protestors took part in the protest amid heavy police presence.
The protests come at a time when universities across the US are grappling with pro-Palestinian protestors, mostly students, who have encamped in the campuses in tents. In the Columbia University in New York, dozens of protestors have take over a building, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window.
Meanwhile, dozens of people were arrested during protests at universities in Texas, Utah and Virginia. The outcry is forcing colleges to reckon with their financial ties to Israel, as well as their support for free speech.