Nocturnal Paris youth protests give government sleepless nights


  • World
  • Wednesday, 13 Apr 2016

PARIS (Reuters) - "This is amazing, people are finally taking the political debate into their own hands," 19-year-old literature student Zoe beamed as she roamed Paris' Place de la Republique, where thousands are meeting nightly to debate, protest and dream of another world.

Street protests are hardly a novelty in the homeland of the 1789 French revolution and the May 1968 student-worker uprising.

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