Student protests continue to sweep the country, with more than 200 people detained during Saturday’s clashes with police
French police are still searching for a suspect who stabbed a university vice-president near his office on Friday.
Although investigators have not established a link between the attack and the ongoing nationwide student protests, more than 80 school principals and deputy principals have been injured amid unrest surrounding the demonstrations since mid-September.
According to French media, the attack occurred at around 7:45pm at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), a public research university near Paris. The victim was working in his office when he heard a noise in the hallway. Believing it was a cleaner, he stepped outside to greet him but was confronted by a hooded man wearing a surgical mask.
The assailant attacked the vice-president with a bladed weapon, leaving him with non-life-threatening injuries to his head and hand. The victim managed to escape into a nearby office and lock the door, while the attacker fled the scene.
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