Lycée protest injuries Witness accounts disputed

Oct 5

France 2 reports that a 15-year-old lost his hand when a grenade exploded during clashes outside Auguste-Béhal lycée in Lens that morning. One witness says the grenade landed in his hand; another recalls a grenade on the ground, and the reporter presents a possible pickup. Béthune prosecutor Étienne Thieffry says neither sequence is established and announces an IGPN investigation into violence causing mutilation. The report then shows 14-year-old Eden’s earlier tear-gas-launcher injury: his parents describe a wired jaw and liquid-only feeding, the prosecutor’s office says he approached police, and the family’s lawyer is filing an attempted-homicide complaint. The minister is cited for 190 injured pupils since the movement began. The competing accounts and legal allegations are unresolved.

TV Brasil reports a fifteen-year-old losing a hand during a student protest in Lens, Pas-de-Calais. It attributes to local reporting the assertion that he reportedly picked up a dispersal grenade after clashes with police. The account places the injury within roughly two weeks of protests over education resources, overcrowding and school conditions. It quotes government spokesperson Maud Bregeon's estimate of 400–500 closed schools and priority of curbing violence and restoring order. The precise injury mechanism remains uncertain. France 2's October 5 Lens report identifies Lycée Auguste-Béhal and carries conflicting witnesses: one says the grenade landed in the pupil's hand; another saw it on the ground. The reporter infers a possible pickup, but Béthune prosecutor Étienne Thieffry says neither sequence is established. The IGPN is investigating violence causing mutilation; responsibility remains unresolved.