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May 10, 2018 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
THREAD/ May 10 1968: The French govt refuses to release arrested students. Full-scale riots break out in the evening. May 10 becomes known as “the night of the barricades” as fortifications are built outside the Sorbonne and barricades across the Latin Quarter. #May68 Image
/ Riot police break into people’s homes and beat up ordinary people, including a pregnant woman. At 2am police attack the barricades. Parisians hurl flowerpots and heavy objects from their windows down at police along with water to protect protesters from tear gas. #May68 Image
/Of 367 people hospitalised, 251 are police. The riots continue until dawn and the bad publicity given to the police provokes France’s biggest unions to come out against the government and call a solidarity strike on May 13. #May68 Image

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