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France suspends stun grenades after 15-year-old injured
BBC News··5d ago
France suspended stun grenades for policing student protests after a 15-year-old's hand was blown off in Lens earlier in the week. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said the pause lasts until Monday's facts are clarified. Education Minister Édouard Geffray said 24 schools were vandalised enough to shut for weeks, affecting 30,000 pupils. Tuesday arrests totalled 488.
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What It Means For You
- More than 500 schools were fully or partially shut on Wednesday.
- Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu was due to address the protests that evening.
- Police watchdog IGPN opened 18 investigations into proportionate force.
What's Happening
- Authorities said the boy picked up a grenade near Auguste Béhal high school.
- Students alleged an officer hit him directly; accounts conflict.
- The prefect described 200 to 250 students throwing stones and fireworks.
How Wide the Unrest Runs
- Hundreds of thousands marched Tuesday for better school conditions.
- Lecornu said 215 students, 85 staff and 715 police officers had been hurt since mid-September.
- More than 6,500 people have been stopped or arrested in that period.
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