Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has voiced strong support for the protest movement sweeping France, telling student demonstrators she is “incredibly proud” of them.
Thunberg joined students outside the Paul Éluard high school in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on October 13, one of the epicenters of the student movement. “I’m incredibly proud of the French students,” she said. “The whole world is following what you’re doing… What do you expect young people to do? Of course we’re gonna revolt, of course we’re gonna rise up, so it should have been expected.”
“And that the police are now meeting it with such violence, and politicians are meeting it as if it’s something unexpected or that young people are destroying things, just shows that they are living in a completely different reality,” she added.
