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MS demonstrators walking along Paris Street accompanied by police (2 shots)
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MS Police following crowd.
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MS Demonstrators and police along pavement.
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MS Banner
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MS Crowds and banners (2 shots)
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LS Crowd chanting with banners
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CU Demonstrators and crowd (3 shots)
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LS Crowd marching up street.
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MC Crowd waving fists and shouting.
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Background: Thousands of students demonstrated in Paris on Friday (19 February) as a court heard the appeal of an 18-year-old student. His jailing sparked a wave of student unrest which has been the most serious since the riots of 1968. The students defied a police ban on demonstrations to demand the release of Gilles Guiot who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on charges of punching a policeman during a demonstration.

Later on Friday, the court acquitted young Guiot -- acting against a background of allegations by a prominent Gaullist politician that French magistrates had shown cowardice in dealing with militant students and other agitators.

There is natural sound throughout this film.