France CPE Riot Watch: UNHINGED French Motorist Drives Through Crowd of Protesting Students

A student falls as he tries to stop a car after it ploughed into demonstrators in Paris, April 7, 2006, injuring at least one.

Police hold back protesters gathered around an overturned car after a motorist drove through a crowd of protesting students on Paris’ Left Bank on Friday, April 7, 2006, injuring seven people. Furious demonstrators overturned the car and tried to kick its windows out. France‘s students have been protesting for weeks over a new law that will make it easier for companies to hire and fire people under age 26.

ASSociated Press: Motorist Drives Through Crowd in Paris

A motorist drove through a crowd of students protesting the government’s new youth jobs law Friday near the Sorbonne University, injuring seven people.

Furious demonstrators overturned the car and tried to kick its windows out, while police in riot gear and helmets worked to disperse the crowd.

Protesters turn over a car after the motorist drove through a crowd of protesting students on Paris’ Left Bank on Friday, April 7, 2006, injuring seven people. Furious demonstrators overturned the car and tried to kick its windows out. France’s students have been protesting for weeks.

The incident came after high school students spent the afternoon disrupting traffic outside the Sorbonne by picnicking on a busy boulevard. They were heading away when a frustrated motorist tried to burst through the crowd.

Several dozen youths turned the car over and unsuccessfully attempted to drag the driver out before police and onlookers intervened.

Firefighters said seven people suffered light injuries.

Come on Folks…….running over students because you are frustrated with some protests.

Good Grief……

Stay tuned…….

A protestor kicks a car after the motorist drove through a crowd of protesting students on Paris’ Left Bank on Friday, April 7, 2006, injuring seven people. Furious demonstrators overturned the car and tried to kick its windows out.

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