Police fired teargas at students in Paris on Thursday, as protests erupted following the deportation of a 15-year-old girl from Kosovo and a 19-year-old Armenian, RFI reported.
Entrances to several Parisian schools were blockaded by many students, even as Interior Minister Manuel Valls defended the detention of Leonarda Dibrani during a school trip and her subsequent deportation to Kosovo.
"If there is a God we will be on the next plane back to France," Dibrani told AFP news agency over the weekend.
Maximillien Draguet, a member of his students' union underscored that "we're demanding these two people to return [to France] and asking for a circular that stops anyone in school - from primary to university level - from being deported. We'll continue demonstrating until we get that," he said.
Over 1,000 students gathered at Place de la Nation on Thursday.
Some politicians, like former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, were also present, with calls for Interior Minister Valls to resign.
Teargas was used by riot police after reported clashes with some demonstrators.
The students also drew attention to the case of Armenian Khatchik Kachatryan, whodeported from France at the request of Armenia because he must do his military service, according to hetq.am.
Forty-four minors were reportedly kicked out of France last year, according to immigrants' rights group Education Sans Frontières, RFI reported.
"It's not acceptable to say that there are categories within society whose background makes it impossible for them to assimilate. And secondly, that their habits and ways of living are a nuisance to their neighbours," House Minister Cecile Duflot said in late September, as reported by France24.
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