The latest figures on the ongoing high school protests across France revealed on Wednesday that over 1,000 people have been injured since the start of the mobilization, while 30,000 students are unable to attend classes, writes aa.com.tr.

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told the National Assembly that 761 police officers and gendarmes were injured alongside 215 students and 89 teaching staff since the protests about learning conditions began in mid-September.

Education Minister Eduard Geffray noted earlier that the vast majority of student injuries were “due to reckless behavior or mortar fire”, according to broadcaster BFMTV.

He also stressed that a “little less than half” of the injured education staff members were principals or deputy principals who were “deliberately targeted” in many cases.

“We have never seen this before”, Geffray explained.

Geffray further noted that 24 high schools were set on fire or vandalized to an extent that they cannot reopen immediately.

“As a result, 30,000 high school students are unable to attend classes in person,” Geffray said, describing it as “enormous harm” to their education.

He added that several hundred other schools were also damaged seriously, with an estimated cost of at least €20-30 million ($22-33 million).