Riot police stood guard at the Sorbonne after breaking up a three-day sit-in there Saturday, as France tried to quell student protests over job reforms. The student protests present a new test for Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, whose plans to relax labor laws have forced his government to tackle street unrest for the second time in five months, after riots began in suburban Paris last year and spread.
See "French Riot Police Break Up Demonstration at Sorbonne", Reuters, Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2006