French student protesters clash with police 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 6 1968)


Video: 'May 1968 events in France'

(Monday, May 6, 1968; during May 1968 events in France) — Bloody pitched battles between French student protesters, demonstrating against the May 2, 1968, shutdown of the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris and the May 3, 1968, police invasion of the Sorbonne campus of the University of Paris, and mobile riot policemen turned Sorbonne into a battle zone today, resulting in hundreds of arrests and injuries.