00:00French students and education unions returned to the streets on Thursday,
00:04saying the government has still not answered their demands.
00:06More than 250,000 people demonstrated nationwide on Tuesday.
00:10In Paris' fifth arrondissement, students were gathering from early morning,
00:14dragging bins into the streets and chanting.
00:17Their complaints include long school days, missing teachers and deteriorating school buildings.
00:23In fact, to block the funds for the national education,
00:26for the schools all around Paris, not only in Paris intramuros.
00:29We have so many nurses that we have, that all teachers are replaced,
00:32not those from Paris, that the walls don't fall down.
00:35All the basic things.
00:37We have to pay attention to the future of France.
00:38Exactly. Our privileges are normally rights.
00:41Teaching unions have also joined the mobilization,
00:44opposing proposed cuts to teaching positions and public sector pay-freezes.
00:47Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu sought to ease tensions on Wednesday,
00:52acknowledging that the students' anger does not come from nowhere,
00:55and that no one can remain indifferent to the anxieties they express.
00:59He also said police had not been ordered to confront students.
01:03If we went to this blocus this morning, and last Friday, and last Friday,
01:08it was to bring all our support to the library schools,
01:11who started this movement and were reprimed by the police.
01:16The government has launched an online consultation to collect students' demands.
01:20Lecornu said more than 40,000 responses had already been submitted
01:23and promised initial measures by the end of October.
01:26But protesters say they want concrete action.
01:30Police tactics have become another major source of tension.
01:34The government suspended the use of stun grenades at the protest
01:36after a 15-year-old lost a hand earlier this week.
01:41Students that I spoke to here on the streets of Paris told me that they would remain mobilised
01:46as long as necessary until they feel satisfied with the government's response to their demands.
01:52That being said, experts in social movements that I spoke to also said that student movements
01:58tend to dissipate when school holidays take place, and France will have a half-time in a few weeks.
02:03So it remains to be seen what kind of impact that will have on the movement's momentum.
02:08Estelle Nelson-Julian reporting for Euronews from Paris.
