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Police arrest 10 for assaults at university

Police were laying numerous criminal charges in a second day of confrontation with student protesters following the reopening of Quebec’s universities.

MONTREAL — Police were laying numerous criminal charges in a second day of confrontation with student protesters following the reopening of Quebec’s universities.

Striking students at the Universite de Montreal have been attempting to force the cancellation of certain classes to protest back-to-school legislation passed this spring.

As they did on Monday, students clashed with the university’s security guards and Montreal police as they reportedly sought to disrupt a film class. Police said they had charged 10 people so far, though the operation was still ongoing Tuesday afternoon.

The student protesters ended up disrupting a psychology class, having mistaken it for the film class they were looking for.

Protesters said they were only disrupting classes in departments where student associations had voted to continue striking over the Liberal government’s tuition hike.