00:00Have you ever wondered how much it costs to repress high school students?
00:02And look, a crowd control grenade already costs 52 euros.
00:06So, because the second year math textbook costs 33 euros.
00:09And of course, unlike the grenade, it lasts for several years.
00:12Another example: an LBD launcher to kill our children costs 1280 euros.
00:16This is equivalent to approximately 20 fans which would be used to cool classrooms during heat waves.
00:20Next, a tear gas grenade costs around 30 euros.
00:23So, because a canteen meal in Ile-de-France costs the region a maximum of 9.80 euros.
00:28And now, in your opinion, how much does a riot police company cost for a day?
00:32Well, nothing less than 40,000 euros.
00:35This is equivalent to 576 hours of replacement classes.
00:38But I must say that the figure that shocks me the most is the total price that a
00:41day of repression.
00:42So, of course, we cannot yet estimate it for high school students.
00:45Except that we have the Sainte-Solines demonstrations of 2023.
00:48Where, brace yourselves, the police operation cost 3.4 million euros in just 3 days.
00:54For comparison, this is equivalent to the cost of 65 secondary school teaching positions for one year.
01:00Excluding pension contributions.
01:01But that's a minor detail.
01:01So, I know that after all this, there are some clever people who will tell me that the destruction
01:05The problems caused by high school students are costly.
01:06And that the police must therefore be sent in to stop them.
01:08Except that where you're wrong is that you're forgetting that the police are responsible for a big
01:12part of these destructions.
01:13Several studies have shown that a violent response from police officers often leads to an escalation of violence.
01:19As a reminder, in the 1980s, police officers primarily favoured appeasement.
01:23And partly thanks to this, the demonstrations were generally less violent.
01:27Actually, it's simple.
01:28If the high school students were there to destroy everything, why did the movement begin peacefully?
01:32Why didn't they start burning down their high school on the very first day?
01:35In reality, the major destruction occurred after the violent and extremely disproportionate intervention of the police.
01:40The state is therefore partly responsible for the cost of the destruction.
01:44Thanks to Manon Aubry for her post which gave me the idea to delve deeper into the subject.
01:47Furthermore, I invite you to follow his account.
01:48In short, huge support for the high school students.
01:51Your demands are perfectly legitimate.
