Protest policing disputed Force and inquiries reviewed

Oct 6

The anchor reports October 6 clashes at Paris's Place de la Nation, a hospitalized young man after arrest in Noisy-le-Grand, and Interior Ministry figures of 488 arrests and 43 injured officers. Éric Pelletier examines that afternoon's Assembly dispute: Benjamin Lucas-Lundy urges dialogue rather than batons and tear gas, while Laurent Nuñez says intervention against violence, damage and attacks on staff is proportionate. Protesters criticize force; the report shows controversial police-car behavior in Belfort and Troyes. It gives last year's launcher-use figures and recalls the previous day's Lens pupil hand injury from a dispersal grenade. Bertrand Cavallier warns that weapons are dangerous while arguing they are needed for intervention. Agathe Foucault defends a filmed plainclothes officer's tear-gas throw as lawful. The report says the IGPN has about ten inquiries and announces that the officer who injured a 14-year-old in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône has been placed under formal investigation and judicial supervision. No adjudicated finding of responsibility is supplied.

France 2 announces that the police officer who injured a 14-year-old pupil in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône was placed under formal investigation and judicial supervision that evening. This is a reported legal-status change following the earlier injury; the bulletin supplies neither the precise charge nor an adjudicated finding of guilt.