More Than 400 Arrested as Student Protests Spread Across France

French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced that more than 400 people had been arrested in connection with student protests across several cities.

Most of those detained were minors, according to the minister. He did not provide a more detailed age breakdown in the announcement.

The protest movement began last week in the suburbs of Paris before spreading beyond the capital’s outskirts.

The arrests come amid a widening wave of demonstrations, though the announcement did not specify how the detentions were distributed among the cities involved.