Paris Students Ignore Ban

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31672, 7 May 1968, Page 17

Paris Students Ignore Ban

(N.Z. P. A -Reuter— Copy right) PARIS, May 6. Angry students prepared a huge demonstration in the Latin Quarter today in defiance of a police ban, raising fear of fresh violent clashes.

On Friday nearly 600 students were arrested around the Sorbonne University when police went into the premises

to haul out students protesting against the closure of the arts faculty at Nanterre University, outside Paris. Any chance that the students would submit to the police ban on today’s demon-

stration crumbled last night after four of their number were sentenced to two months imprisonment for assaulting police at the university. Other student and teaching groups have rallied behind the defiant National Union of

French Students, which has called today's rally, and similar demonstrations are planned in provincial universities. The Ministry of Education said last night that any students who interfered with normal classes and tire annual examinations, which started today, would face expulsion.

It also said the proposed teachers’ strike was illegal. The Education Minister, Mr Alain Peyrefitte, is to make a television broadcast tonight, and it is thought almost certain that he will refer to the student demonstrations.