France halts police use of stun grenades at student protests

Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to make public address after thousands rally to demand more funding for education.

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Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to make public address after hundreds of thousands rally to demand more funding for education.

French police intervene as clashes break out at the end of a demonstration of high school students and members of education unions amid protests over school conditions in Paris, France, October 6 2026 [Mohammed Badra/EPA]

France has temporarily banned police from using stun grenades at student-led protests , the interior minister said, amid growing accusations of police brutality following several days of student demonstrations nationwide.

The announcement on Wednesday came a day after hundreds of thousands of students and supporters marched across France to demand more funding for education and better conditions in high schools, prompting President Emmanuel Macron to convene an emergency meeting with Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and other key ministers to try to defuse the crisis.

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Lecornu will make a public address later on Wednesday on the school protests as well as the country’s finances, his office said.

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told radio broadcaster RTL early on Wednesday that he had suspended police use of stun grenades at the protests.

A 15-year-old lost a hand in the northern city of Lens on Monday after police fired a stun grenade.

Earlier, a 14-year-old student was hit in the face by a tear gas grenade at such close range that he lost several teeth. A policeman was charged on Tuesday over the incident in the capital, Paris.

Police have opened 18 internal investigations into allegations of misconduct since the protests began, Nunez said.

Rights groups, students and parents’ groups have accused authorities of using disproportionate force against minors. The government says the protest movement has been hijacked by outsiders and morphed into urban violence.

The Ministry of the Interior said 6,100 people have been arrested since the protests began last month, the overwhelming majority of them minors.

More than 1,800 people are being prosecuted, including 1,483 minors, the Ministry of Justice said, without specifying the crimes.

At least 715 police officers and 215 teenagers have been injured in clashes, according to Lecornu’s office.

Students demand school funding

Protests started in late September with students blocking entrances to hundreds of high schools for 15- to 17-year-olds over complaints of dilapidated facilities and teacher shortages and demands for more funding for education.

Parents, teachers and union workers joined the demonstrations in Paris and other cities on Tuesday amid accusations that police were using disproportionate force.

Sporadic violent clashes have broken out between police and protesters at what otherwise have been largely peaceful demonstrations.

Lecornu on Tuesday condemned the violence and told lawmakers that it would not be tolerated, while also rejecting accusations that the government had ordered “police repression” against protesters.

在数十万人集会要求增加教育经费后，总理塞巴斯蒂安·勒科尔努将发表公开讲话。

2026年10月6日，法国巴黎，高中生和教育工会成员举行示威游行，抗议学校条件，游行结束后双方发生冲突，法国警方介入制止。[Mohammed Badra/EPA]

法国内政部长表示，鉴于全国各地连续数日爆发学生示威活动，警方暴力执法的指控日益增多，法国已暂时禁止警方在学生领导的抗议活动中使用眩晕弹。

周三的这项声明是在数十万学生和支持者在法国各地游行，要求增加教育经费和改善高中条件的第二天发布的，这促使总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙与总理塞巴斯蒂安·勒科尔努和其他主要部长召开紧急会议，试图化解危机。

列表 1/3：法国校园抗议冲突中，一名青少年在爆炸中失去一只手

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莱科尔努的办公室表示，他将于周三晚些时候就学校抗议活动以及国家财政状况发表公开讲话。

内政部长洛朗·努内斯周三早些时候告诉RTL广播电台，他已暂停警方在抗议活动中使用眩晕弹。

周一，在北部城市朗斯，一名15岁少年被警方发射的眩晕弹炸断了一只手。

此前，一名14岁学生被一枚催泪瓦斯弹近距离击中面部，导致多颗牙齿脱落。周二，一名警察因这起发生在首都巴黎的事件被起诉。

努涅斯表示，自抗议活动开始以来，警方已对18起不当行为指控展开内部调查。