Students union to diversify tactics - blockades threatened

Bruno Julliard of students union UNEF is now calling for a 'diversification of methods', including the blockading of the transport system.

"We will probably continue to call for new demonstrations, but indeed, we will also diversify our methods of action, sometimes calling for gatherings, sometimes indeed calling for the blocking of airports, stations..." Le Figaro is reporting him saying.

Spontaneous blockades have already been a feature of demonstrations across France. Train stations in Rennes and Nantes have been blocked, motorways in Nice, and today in Brittany, students blocked roads into several towns and cities.

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