 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hundreds of students took to the streets of France in solidarity with Anna's gay, a 22-year-old student at Lyon University who attempted suicide on Friday, November the 8th. Anna set himself a light outside the building that houses the Regional Student Aid Center in the city of Lyon. According to medical authorities, Anna's was hospitalized with severe burns and his condition remains critical. His suicide attempt was reported to be because of his dire financial situation. Students in France organized protests against the precarious living conditions in the country and to express solidarity with Anna's. Breaking into the premises of an amphitheater in Lyon, they forced the cancellation of a conference by former President François Hollande. Parallel protests were organized in Lyon, Bourdieu, Toulouse, Montpellier and Nantes. Members of the Communist Youth Organization, MGCF and the Communist Students Organization, UEC, along with members of the Student Union Solidarie, of which Anna's was a member, also took part in the protest. Before attempting suicide, Anna's had written on Facebook, detailing his financial difficulties and called the Student Aid Center at Lyon a political target that represented the interests of higher education ministry and the government of France. The post read, I am doing the second year of my bachelor's degree for the third time. I have no grant. Even when I had one, I got only 450 euros per month. How can one live on that? He blamed the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron, his two predecessors, Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, and the European Union for having pushed him into poverty. He also accused right-wing politician Marie Lipin and the French media for contributing to this. His post ends by asking students to hit the streets to bring about a change to the situation faced by thousands of them across France.