During the sixth national strike after the summer vacation protesting the French pension reform, sporadic violence erupted Tuesday between young demonstrators and riot police in Paris' suburb.

Students clash with the police during a demonstration over pension reforms with private and public sector workers in Lyon October 18, 2010(Xinhua/AFP Photo)


According to local media, some 200 high school students rallied in northern Paris suburb Naterre, where confrontation between students and riots police took place on Monday.

The youngsters torched a car and projected smoking substance to riot police.

Last morning, police arrested a dozen of young delinquents sending fire to a car and destroying a bus station while dispersing their blockage near a school.

Till Monday, there were 22 policemen were injured and 196 young students were arrested across France, local media reported. The most violent incidents were observed in Lyon on Monday with cars overturned, torched, and molotov cocktails thrown to police.

The Education Ministry recorded 379 high schools were shut down Tuesday morning, the highest number since such nationwide strikes took on the streets in September.

In Mans, a city not far Paris, a school was found totally burn down in the morning. Major Jean-Claude Boulard attributed the fire to man-made criminal.

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