Student protest inside Paris' Sorbonne University

About 200 students protested a new inside Paris’ Sorbonne University, which reopened today after being shuttered for six weeks during student demonstrations over a youth jobs law, school officials said.

Several hundred students voted to occupy the school again today to press new demands on the conservative government, university official Nicolas Boudot said.

Despite some disruptions, classes continued normally, he said. Protesters, from various Paris universities, were able to enter the building using their student identity cards.

Weeks of massive street demonstrations and protests that shut down many schools have dwindled since President Jacques Chirac’s government voted to scrap the youth jobs law. Some radical demonstrators have continued pressing wider demands.

The Sorbonne’s column-lined main building on Paris’ Left Bank became a symbol of the stand-off after students occupied it March 8-11 and riot police stormed in to dislodge them.