Student, 15, Has Hand Blown Off During French School Protests, Local Press Reports
- A 15-year-old student in France had their hand blown off after picking up a police stun grenade during mass school protests, local authorities said. Local prefect Francois-Xavier Lauch confirmed an investigation into the incident has been opened.
- Protests began in late September at a Paris suburb high school over teacher shortages before spreading nationwide. Nearly 500 schools now face complete or partial closures due to overcrowding, dilapidated facilities, and staffing gaps.
- Education minister Edouard Geffray Geffray reported that 24 schools have been burned or ransacked and 78 teaching staff have been injured since demonstrations began across France.
- Government spokeswoman Maud Bregeon told CNews on Monday that "our priority is to restore order" as officials manage the escalating unrest.
- According to French paper Voix du Nord, local prefect Francois-Xavier Lauch confirmed the investigation into the grenade incident as a nationwide day of demonstrations is scheduled for Tuesday.
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The 15-year-old high school student was transported to Lille Hospital as a matter of urgency. The prefect of Pas-de-Calais said he could not say whether he picked up the grenade or whether it was thrown at him.
A 15-year-old student had his hand blown off during a protest against dilapidated schools in France on Monday.
A schoolboy's hand was blown off by a police grenade during protests in France, BFMTV reports
A schoolboy's hand was blown off by a police grenade during protests in France, BFMTV reports.According to media reports, a 15-year-old lyceum student picked up the ammunition himself.The teenager's life is not in danger, he was hospitalized.
A 15-year-old student had his hand blown off on Monday during a protest against dilapidated schools in France.
Aftenposten
Hundreds of French schools were closed on Monday due to student demonstrations. In the city of Lens, a student went missing when he tried to pick up a stun grenade.
A schoolboy in the French commune of Lance suffered a severe hand injury due to the detonation of a police grenade during a demonstration, the incident occurred in northern France in front of the community of Lance in front of the Ogust Beal lyceum during the school demonstration. The police used a rubber grenade to disperse the crowd. One of the students picked up a grenade and it exploded in his hand, wrote BFMTV. The prefect of the department…
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