Video taking off 137x its usual first day

Police pull students from a Sciences Po sit-in in Paris

ET Now World's footage moves from the university entrance to marchers explaining demands over education funding, wages and living costs.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 53,649 views a day, 137 times a normal first day on this channel (392).

France Protest Escalates: Riot Police Remove Student Demonstrators From Paris University Sit-In

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0:19Riot police remove demonstrators from the sit-in outside Sciences Po, pulling some along the pavement.
4:37A marcher says mobilization continues despite government restrictions on demonstrations.
5:22A speaker argues that addressing high living costs requires action on wages.
7:45A student calls for education funding and rejects the idea that school blockades are simply about avoiding class.
9:23Nighttime footage shows police patrols and street cordons around Westfield Forum des Halles.
14:02Police disperse crowds with tear gas and make arrests amid street fires.

Students sit outside the Sciences Po entrance as riot police advance. Officers pull demonstrators away one by one, dragging some along the pavement. That confrontation opens ET Now World's compilation of protest footage from France.

The upload drew about 35,000 views in eleven hours, far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience of a few hundred for regular videos. But it contains more than the police removal promised by its title: the footage also gives space to people explaining why they are marching.

A demonstrator in a red jacket says the mobilization continues despite government restrictions on demonstrations. Another speaker argues that a response to high living costs must include wages. Later, a student calls for education funding and pushes back against the idea that students blockade schools simply to avoid class.

Those interviews sit between markedly different scenes. The opening university sit-in gives way to a large street march, then nighttime footage around Westfield Forum des Halles, where police vans patrol and streets are cordoned off. The compilation later shows damaged storefronts, street fires, tear gas and arrests.

For readers looking for the students' explanation rather than only the confrontation, the education-funding interview begins just before the eight-minute mark.

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