11.   Their action set off a chain of events that would reach the highest levels of the two campuses.

12.   With so many colleges and universities, Philadelphia draws many parents and prospective students who are visiting the various campuses.

13.   Police had an order to raid the two campuses in case students would go ahead with plans to elect their new leadership, it said.

14.   Gendarmes guarding one of the two campuses, the Institut Superieur de Commerce, told AFP the students had all left peacefully and taken their belongings.