Live: Up to 500 schools to shut in France as student protests continue

Hundreds of schools to shut Monday

Up to 500 schools across France will be totally or partly closed on Monday because of a wave of student protests that has shaken the country, the education minister said.

Lessons will be “totally or partly suspended” in some “400-500” high schools as the security conditions “have not been fulfilled”, said Education Minister Édouard Geffray on Sunday, adding that 24 schools had been “burned or ransacked” since the start of the movement.