Tensions boiled over outside a barricaded French high school on Tuesday as masked and hooded demonstrators clashed with police, hurling projectiles and setting trash bins ablaze.
The violent confrontations mark an escalating phase in a rapidly growing nationwide student movement demanding increased financial resources and better infrastructure for the country's education system.
While authorities have deployed security forces to contain the unrest and protect school perimeters, student leaders vow to continue their demonstrations until the government addresses their core grievances regarding chronic underfunding and deteriorating school facilities.
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