LIVE - October 17 mobilization: deafening grenades can be used for Saturday demonstrations, announces Laurent Nuñez

LIVE - Mobilization of October 17: Deafening grenades may be used for Saturday's demonstrations, announces Laurent Nuñez "If there were serious violence in large cities and on the margins of demonstrations, these grenades will be used," assured Laurent Nuñez, Minister of the Interior on France 2. The use of these has been suspended in the context of the student movement. The live Essential Facts - Drones deployed in Calvados - Deafening grenades may be used on Saturday - October 17: 250 demonstrations are planned, announces Laurent Nunez Drones deployed in Calvados "The prefect of Calvados authorizes the capture of images by aircraft, Friday, October 16, 2026," he announced on X. "Youth are facing a wave of unprecedented repression," advances a deputy Insoumis "Youth are facing a wave of unprecedented repression," assures Paul Vannier, Insoumis deputy from Val d’Oise. "I exercised my right to visit the detention cells of the Argenteuil police station this evening to ensure the detention conditions for the high school students arrested today in my constituency. I requested a medical examination for one of them." The main parents' association joins the October 17 mobilization The Federation of Parents' Councils (FCPE), the main federation of parents in public education, calls on "parents to join the demonstrations organized on Saturday, October 17, to support the student demands and denounce the austerity policies that weaken public education services, aggravate inequalities, and compromise the future of young people," it said in a statement. "The national board of the FCPE, meeting this weekend in Paris, will participate in the Parisian march and calls on its entire territorial network to relay this call for mobilization." "Risks of public order disturbances": the prefect of police of Paris prohibits a route for October 17 The prefect of police of Paris, Patrice Faure, issued an order on Thursday prohibiting demonstrations on the route chosen by the Interfac IDF general assembly to parade in the capital on Saturday, stating that his alternative route proposal "remains valid," according to AFP from the police prefecture (PP). Interfac IDF declared a demonstration between the Place de la République and the Place de la Concorde. This route was refused by the PP which highlighted "serious risks of public order disturbances" but offered them an "alternative route, connecting Republic to Nation, in the interest of reconciling the freedom to demonstrate and the safety of all." The organizers refusing the alternative route proposed by the PP, Patrice Faure decided to issue an order prohibiting the initially declared route. "The proposal for an alternative route remains valid," added the PP. The incidents on Tuesday "demonstrated the presence, within the Interfac IDF procession, of several hundred violent individuals, determined to confront law enforcement, loot shops, degrade public property and harm everyone's peace," continued the prefecture. Nicolas Dupont-Aignan supports the October 17 demonstrations Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, mayor of Yerres, will "of course" support the October 17 movement, "if it remains peaceful," he explained on FranceInfo. "The best way to help the French is to prepare for the presidential election. Demonstrate calmly, but the first demonstration is voting," he added. The candidate unhappy with the presidential election regrets "an unworthy response from the government to the student movement" and speaks in favor of abolishing Parcoursup. "It feels like the government is letting the situation rot and wants the next President of the Republic to face general chaos." "The government must take the money where it is, in the pockets of billionaires," estimates Sophie Binet What is the relationship between the demands of the students and the union mobilization on Saturday? "The motto is 'stop to the high cost'," summarized Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, on France Inter. "The common point, she continued, is to say that the government must take the money where it is, that is, in the pockets of billionaires, companies..." She notably denounced "the freezing of student scholarships for the third consecutive year" and called on the executive to respond "immediately" to the demands of the youth. Deafening grenades may be used on Saturday "If there is serious violence in large cities and on the margins of demonstrations, these grenades will be used," assured Laurent Nunez, Minister of the Interior in response to a question about the use of deafening grenades by law enforcement, on France 2 this Friday. The use of them has been suspended in the context of the student movement. Read also What are the deafening grenades that Laurent Nuñez suspended the use of "for the student movement"? October 17: 250 demonstrations are planned, announces Laurent Nunez "250 demonstrations and 80 processions must be authorized, we have a little more than forty declared demonstrations" in the prefectures, announced Laurent Nunez, Minister of the Interior, on France 2. He added that he fears "unruly and violent demonstrations" due to "ultrachaos," especially in "Bordeaux and Toulouse." And at least "250 actions" are planned. "Nearly 1000 police and gendarmes have been injured," according to Aurore Bergé "Nearly 1000 police and gendarmes have been injured, 150 personnel of the National Education system (...) I appeal to the responsibility of the parents (...) at no time can we accept this level of violence," announced Aurore Bergé, Minister for gender equality, on TF1. Nunez: "In this student movement, we see stronger aggression from young people towards law enforcement" "If young people go into public space, if their action obstructs traffic or sets fire to bins, we are obliged to intervene to clear the way and prevent a fire," Laurent Nuñez, Minister of the Interior, reminded adolescents during an interview organized by Le Parisien. "In this student movement, we see stronger aggression from young people towards law enforcement. [...] I am both the guarantor of the freedom to demonstrate and the guarantor of security. I represent the general interest," he added. "Distrust is not general. In the French population, there is great trust in the internal security forces. The rate of adherence is weaker among young people. This, I think, is explained by a lack of knowledge of the police role. Their intervention is not always understood," he expressed concern. "When force is used, it is a response to aggression. Of course. When we see the videos on social networks, we can feel that a person is being stopped when they have done nothing. But when a young person throws a projectile at law enforcement, the stop is not necessarily immediate; it can come later." Student movement: 1260 arrests including 86% of minors in the Paris agglomeration Since the beginning of the student movement, 1260 people, including 86% of minors, have been arrested in the Paris agglomeration, announced the Paris police prefecture on Thursday. According to the PP count, 286 police and gendarmes and 13 personnel of the National Education system were injured. "Violence is repeated and gaining intensity (...) The escalation of violence over several weeks cannot be trivialized," asserts the prefecture. For the single day of Tuesday, 71 police and gendarmes were injured, two were operated on that same evening, about ten were taken to the hospital. "School must be a sanctuary": In Saint-Denis, anger after the police intervention in a high school A "total red line has been crossed", an "absolute scandal", "a shock": several hundred students and teachers of the Paul-Eluard high school in Saint-Denis shouted their anger on Thursday in front of the neighborhood police station after the police's "violent intervention" in their establishment. Earlier in the day, the anti-criminal brigade (Bac) arrested a student "author of an outrage" within the high school, indicated the police prefecture to AFP, specifying that they had the agreement of the head of the establishment. "What happened in the headmaster's office is an absolute scandal," denounces Georges H., a 35-year-old history and geography teacher, shouting at the police station, estimating that a "total red line has been crossed." "So-so solidarity with our repressed students," the school staff shout in sign of approval, especially the education assistants, clapping and calling for the "resignation" of the high school principal. They reproach him in particular for letting police officers in civilian clothes enter the establishment in order to arrest a high school student. "A principal who hands one of our classmates over to the police within the school, if I compare it to my classes, it makes me think of the Vichy regime," says Bilal, a 17-year-old student in terminale at Paul-Eluard. The mobilization will continue during the holidays, according to student unions Student unions, disappointed by their third meeting with the Minister of Education Édouard Geffray on Thursday, estimated that the mobilization would continue during the holidays starting Friday. "We left the meeting (after an hour, NDLR) because we were not heard and we are told there will be a new meeting on Monday, which we will not attend, simply because it is useless (...) the mobilization will also continue during the holidays and at the beginning of the school year," he added. The head of the student union specified that the universities, on vacation a week after the high school students, could "continue to block during this time." "These holidays are a way to reorient our dynamics, reorient our demands, and continue the fight in a slightly different way," added Lydia Hamaden, national secretary in charge of Île-de-France within the USL. School schedules: Philippe speaks of concentrated morning learning and shorter holidays Édouard Philippe advocated on Thursday, during a digital campaign meeting dedicated to education, an evolution of school schedules, mentioning concentrated learning hours in the morning and a reduction in the duration of holidays. "I do not believe it is a good idea to have a lot of classes in few days and then quite long holidays. I think it is not optimal for children," stated the Horizons candidate for the presidential election during this connected meeting, which gathered about 5,000 participants according to the party. "If we want to reduce the number of learning hours per day a little, and if we want to concentrate the learning hours in the morning to have time in the afternoon to do sports, to have access to cultural education or language education when you are in middle school, or foreign civilization education," "and we must relax a little," the former Prime Minister continued. "If we can implement a system (...) in which there are a few fewer class hours per week and a little more access to establishments and sporting and cultural activities in the afternoon, is it not worth limiting the number of vacation days or holidays at the time of Easter, at the time of Passover?" Édouard Philippe developed. Parcoursup: Le Pen wants "total transparency" in selection Marine Le Pen affirmed on Thursday on CNews that she wants "total transparency" in the selection criteria at the end of high school, while the current system, Parcoursup, is at the heart of the criticism from students and students who have expressed their dissatisfaction for several weeks. "A suppression or reform" of Parcoursup, "it's the same," stated the candidate of the National Rally in the presidential election, explaining that she wants to "return to something relatively simple." "What we want is total transparency in the criteria chosen by the different universities or different schools," she said, without further detail. The post-bac orientation platform crystallizes the dissatisfaction of the mobilized students, accused of sorting students via opaque and discriminatory criteria. Regarding student demonstrations, the far-right candidate judges that "those who break up at school and are over sixteen" should be "excluded" from their establishment. "They will go find an institution that will accept them to be educated," Marine Le Pen stressed. Geffray in Gironde to denounce violence and show dialogue "Mr. Geffray, go see the most deprived, not the favored ones." On his trip around Bordeaux on Thursday, the Minister of Education visited a high school in a popular neighborhood, deserted after looting, before going to dialogue with students in a more affluent suburb. A significant police deployment surrounds the premises of the polyvalent high school of Les Iris, in Lormont in the north of the agglomeration, when Édouard Geffray arrives in the morning to witness the damage from a violent intrusion a week ago, on the margins of the student movement. About thirty young people had then burned and looted the premises of a vocational printing sector, for a loss of several hundred thousand euros. "It is not necessarily students who do this, we are encountering a fringe group, they are not individuals who are listening, nor in dialogue," stressed the principal, Thierry Malewicz. "Dialogue exists, it has already led to actions, but those who do this (...), are criminals," replied the minister. "Well done for facing it." The mobilization continued on Thursday Thursday, the mobilization continued everywhere, as student unions called to join the mobilization day scheduled for Saturday, October 17. Spontaneous demonstrations, bringing together several hundred people, began in the early afternoon in Bordeaux, Lille and Aubervilliers in particular. The staff of the Paul-Eluard high school of Saint-Denis, one of the epicenters of the student movement, denounced a "violent" intervention by plainclothes police within the premises of the establishment to arrest a student. At the national level, principals were called by their main union to a "curtain operation" on Thursday afternoon, consisting of managing only emergencies, to show their "fed up." The government is banking on the school holidays to cause its suffocation in the 3,700 high schools in the country, but youth organizations call to join the mobilization on Saturday with the yellow vests against the high cost of living. Concrete measures announced by the end of October, assures Geffray Édouard Geffray highlighted, in discussions held with students, the actions taken, including the 3,000 substitute teachers announced at the end of the previous meeting with the unions, which allow him to not count only "41 establishments" in serious difficulties this Thursday evening, compared to 114 last Thursday. Regarding Parcoursup, concrete measures "will be communicated by the end of October," reminded Mr. Geffray. The unions now want to exchange with the Prime Minister The student union has announced Thursday evening that it now wants to communicate directly with Matignon, rather than the Ministry of Education. This is also the case for the Les Lycéens! union, which, like the USL, has again called on high school students to demonstrate alongside the various dissatisfied (yellow vests, farmers) on Saturday, October 17. The Minister of National Education Édouard Geffray and the student organizations have not made any significant progress on Thursday, for their third exchange since the beginning of the movement. The meeting between Mr. Geffray and the student organizations, via videoconference, even seemed to freeze positions, while the school holidays begin on Friday. "We left the meeting (after an hour, NDLR) because we were not heard and we are told there will be a new meeting on Monday, which we will not attend, simply because it is useless (...) the mobilization will also continue during the holidays and at the beginning of the school year," explained Marius Mesnil, co-general secretary of the student union. Welcome to this live broadcast Hello and welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the student mobilization. The student unions, disappointed by their third meeting with the Minister of Education Édouard Geffray on Thursday, estimated that the mobilization would continue during the holidays starting Friday. Follow with Le Figaro this new day before the major demonstrations of October 17. Read the file School blockade: the mobilization continues and protest spreads across France To remember - The "yellow vests" indeed want to "take the street" on Saturday by uniting multiple demands, including those of the youth, the spearhead of the social protest this autumn. For weeks, calls to take out October 17, the emblematic "yellow vests" of the 2018-2019 years circulated on social networks, but they have inflamed in recent days, fueled by the anger of high school students. - Since the beginning of the student movement, 1260 people, including 86% of minors, have been arrested in the Paris agglomeration, announced the Paris police prefecture on Thursday. According to the PP count, 286 police and gendarmes and 13 personnel of the National Education system were injured.