but a lot of people aren't happy with Sarkozy winning. Today, the students at the Sorbonne voted to stage a strike in protest of Sarkozy's plans for educatio, shutting down classes, the school, and a large part of the Blvd St. Michel. By the time I arrived near the scene (around 9 pm), unaware of what was going on, the street was completely cut off and surrounded by more police vehicles than I've ever seen in one place (including at least one APC), and hundreds of cops (flics) in full riot gear. I'm not sure yet what provoked the massive police presence, but large numbers of the striking students were being arrested, searched, and packed into buses, and I heard what sounded like some kind of crowd-control fire; I took a few photos of the scene, which I can't post right now.
There were, of course, a number of people also observing the scene from a distance. One of them was a sixty-something Russian man who got into a heated discussion with some French students about politics; at one point he claimed that he had no problem with the Putin regime because "I can go everywhere, there is no problem!" Seriously. Russia.
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