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Today's papers in France

Mainstream news digest.

Submitted by alibi on March 13, 2006

Taken from the BBC. you can read the rest of this article at the bottom of this page.

Le Monde carries a front-page photo of the Sorbonne protesters trying to stop riot police from entering a room in which they had barricaded themselves.
"Villepin barricades himself in", reads Liberation's front-page headline after the prime minister said the law to introduce the CPE would be put into effect.

  • France
  • Western Europe
  • Anti-CPE protests

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