SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Lycee Voltaire with students on strike standing outside, AUDIO: car horns
2. Mid of the students blocking the entrance to their high-school
3. Mid of banner on school wall reading: (French) “Voltaire mobilises against the pension reform” and “Voltaire is angry”
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Sybille Deschamps, 17-year-old member of the high-school student union (UNL):
“Well the thing is, first I don’t want to retire at 67-years-old because I think I will go on with my studies for a few more years and also, the later people stay at work in their life, the less work there will be left for us. I don’t want to get my first job when I’m 30 and unemployed when I’m 25 or something.”
5. Pan from student cheering to student banging on bin
6. Various of students chanting (French) “Sarko, you’re going down, because young people are in the street. ”
7. SOUNDBITE (French) R�mi Kranzer, History and Geography teacher, Lyc�e Voltaire:
“We have been on strike since Tuesday, so we were already on a strike yesterday and today too, to protest against the pension reform as employees. We’re part of a movement which is not only inherent in education but also takes place in petrol refinery, in SNCF (French rail road company), and in the transport and many other sectors which consider this reform as totally unfair.”
8. Wide of students protesting with banners reading (French) “Horn, make noise” AUDIO car horns
9. Close up of a banner reading (French) “Horn.”
10. Close up of a young student hanging the banner on a traffic light
11. Mid of students blocking entrance to their school
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Aline Berardi, Economic and Social Sciences Teacher:
“Retirement is not a demographic question, it’s a question of social model and France on that matter is a european model. If we break this european model, many countries will sink.”
13. Mid of students protesting
14. Wide of the students asking the passing cars to horn in solidarity, AUDIO: car horns
STORYLINE
Students at Lycee Voltaire school in Paris stood alongside their teachers on Friday to strike in protest over the French government’s retirement reforms.
With banners at the side of the road asking passing motorists to honk their horns in solidarity many did as the issue has angered many French workers.
“Well the thing is, first I don’t want to retire at 67-years-old because I think I will go on with my studies for a few more years and also, the later people stay at work in their life, the less work there will be left for us,” said 17-year-old student Sybille Deschamps.
History and Geography teacher at the school, R�mi Kranzer, said the controversial reforms affect many different industries.
“We’re part of a movement which is not only inherent in education but also takes place in petrol refinery, in SNCF (French rail road company), and in the transport and many other sectors which consider this reform as totally unfair,” he said.
The head of an oil workers union said that strikes have spread to all of France’s refineries.
Charles Foulard, a union coordinator at oil giant Total SA, said workers at all 12 of France’s refineries are on strike after two plants owned by Exxon Mobil and Petroplus voted to join the strike on Friday.
France’s transport minister authorised oil companies to use some of their reserves after trucking companies complained of difficulties fuelling their vehicles.
Dominique Bussereau told French radio station RTL that the country’s stocks of fuel meant there was no reason for drivers to fear a gas shortage due to the industrial action.
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Post time: Apr-07-2017