Parents take teachers hostage at French primary World news guardian.co.uk:
"First there was a wave of boss-nappings in protest at job-cuts, then workers threatened to blow up factories, now disgruntled French parents are taking their own radical action in protest at school cuts.
Until this week the Elysee Maury primary school at Laroque d'Olmes, a village in the Ariège, was best known as the place where the French goalkeeper Fabien Barthez first kicked a ball. But on Tuesday evening, furious that the authorities were going to scrap a class and move a teacher away, a group of parents took over the school on the edge of the Pyrenees, blocking exits and taking the school's three teachers hostage overnight."
"First there was a wave of boss-nappings in protest at job-cuts, then workers threatened to blow up factories, now disgruntled French parents are taking their own radical action in protest at school cuts.
Until this week the Elysee Maury primary school at Laroque d'Olmes, a village in the Ariège, was best known as the place where the French goalkeeper Fabien Barthez first kicked a ball. But on Tuesday evening, furious that the authorities were going to scrap a class and move a teacher away, a group of parents took over the school on the edge of the Pyrenees, blocking exits and taking the school's three teachers hostage overnight."