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Police have arrested 4,400 people, most of them minors, during a week of student protests in France, as teenagers describe injuries from police munitions and a school system they say has been abandoned.
The French government has pledged 3,000 extra supply teachers in the coming days, its first material concession to three weeks of sometimes violent secondary school protests.
Tear gas was fired by police in Paris and Marseille as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across France during protests by high school pupils that spread to parents, university students and unions.
