Sorbonne, 45 years ago. A Sunday that showed that the world was changing...

The shocks start to spread all over Paris

Exactly 45 years ago, on May the 5th 1968 (a Sunday also), "May of 1968" showed again that it was not just a mere movement of student protest. At that date, students tried to "take back" the University of Sorbonne, in Paris. Next day, the national student union, the biggest in France, together with the university teachers  union, marched to protest against the police invasion of Sorbonne.

It was not an usual march. More than 20,000 students and teachers marched to Sorbonne, that was occupied by the police. The reaction was violent and the crowd started to disperse. But the battle was just beginning. Part of students start to create barricades while others began to throw paving stones against the policemen. The answer was with the use of tear gas against the crowd and hundreds of students were arrested.

It was clear then that "May of 1968" would go far beyond the month of May of that magic year. The world was changing, clearly. Aren't we in 1968?