Impact

Impact reported that Sébastien Cauet believed that asking high school students to choose between Israel and Palestine amounted to making them anti-Semitic. According to him, they would answer "Palestine" without knowing why. The host, who has been indicted for rape and sexual assaults on four women, allegedly compared some high school students to parrots and called on them to think for themselves if they wanted to be heard. Impact specified that the media was linked to the Bolloré group. #Israël #Palestine #Éducation (translated)

Impact wrote to Cauet that the situation in Gaza constituted genocide and that repeating the contrary in Bolloré's media would not change reality, according to him. Regarding the interviews asking young people to choose between Israel and Palestine, he criticized him for not considering that answering "Palestine" could express support for the bombarded Palestinians. Impact also defended the ability of high school students to understand the situation, support the Palestinians, and reject anti-Semitism while putting forward their own demands. He finally pointed out that Cauet's arrival at Bolloré was only a few weeks ago and expressed his support for Palestine. #FreePalestine #Gaza #Solidarité (translated)

Impact reported that a 31-year-old woman accused a police officer of sexual assault during a high school protest on Thursday, October 8, in front of Hélène-Boucher High School in Paris. She was participating in a chain of adults positioned between the police and the high school students. According to her account, an officer allegedly reached between two shields and rubbed her intimate parts for several seconds. Immobilized, she was unable to push him away. Her partner, a municipal official, allegedly confirmed that he heard her scream that she was being sexually assaulted before helping her escape. The woman then attempted to locate the officer but claimed that many police officers were not wearing their identification numbers. An ongoing investigation was opened after her complaint to the IGPN, according to Impact. #AgressionSexuelle #Justice #MobilisationLycéenne (translated)

Impact reported that Ségolène Royal had criticized Raphaël Glucksmann after his victory in the first round of the PS and Place publique primary for the 2027 presidential election. According to the publication, she regretted that the "intern" had won the primary. Impact provided the following results: Glucksmann 66.13%, Faure 14.48%, Royal 7.62%, Maurel 5.92%, and Guedj 5.83%. #Politique #Élections2027 #PS (translated)

Impact estimated that the momentum around Jean-Luc Mélenchon, fueled according to him by the latest polls and increasingly crowded meetings, was worrying a part of the political class. He indicated that more than 11,000 people had gathered that day at the Zénith in Clermont-Ferrand for the rebellious leader. Impact also reported that Laurent Wauquiez (LR) had reacted by asking: "What are we waiting for to wake up and gather the right?" #Mélanchon #Politique #France (translated)

Impact stated that more than 10,000 people attended Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s meeting at the Zénith in Clermont-Ferrand, which he described as packed. According to the author, the LFI leader also came out to greet more than 1,000 people who could not get in. Impact added that BFMTV deemed this mobilization "incomparable" to that of Gabriel Attal, the day before in Lyon, where the turnout was said to be ten times lower. He estimated that there were almost more people outside Mélenchon’s meeting than inside Attal’s. #Mélanchon #PolitiqueFrançaise #Mobilisation (translated)

Impact wrote that Evan, 15, who had lost a hand in the explosion of a police grenade in Lens, denied having picked it up, contrary to what the prosecution had claimed. According to the author, the teenager, injured on Monday, October 5, during a high school protest, also contested any involvement in violence, according to his lawyer. Impact added that this version had been widely relayed by the media, sometimes presented as established, while witnesses had contested it from the day of the events. The lawyer denounced, according to the author, a position of the prosecution formulated before Evan's hearing and in the absence of a video of the explosion. The teenager's mother had filed a complaint and the investigation by the IGPN was ongoing to establish the circumstances of the tragedy. #JusticePourEvan #LutteContreLaViolence #DroitsDesJeunes (translated)

Impact reported that Olivier Truchot opposed the presence of elected officials at demonstrations and questioned why Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of Saint-Denis and not Paris, participated in a Parisian gathering. Truchot believed that elected officials should instead address problems, regardless of their political affiliation. After a speaker asked him if the elected officials who demonstrated against anti-Semitism were also wrong, Truchot responded that the situation was different. #Politique #Manifestation #République (translated)

Impact reported, citing BFM TV, that Linda, a modern literature teacher, had been called to teach English 60 km from her home. She was one of the 3,000 substitute teachers mobilized by the Minister of National Education in response to the social movement of high school students. According to Impact, Linda had denounced a "total contempt" and said she risked sanctions for abandoning her post if she refused this assignment. #Éducation #Professeurs #France (translated)

Impact stated that François Boulo had joined the mobilization of high school students planned for October 17, after Maxime Nicolle. He said that the police violence against young people had crossed a line and called to tell the government that enough is enough. #GiletsJaunes #Mobilisation #Lycéens (translated)

Impact reported that lawyer Elsa Marcel had strongly criticized the BFMTV set, considering that most of the speakers portrayed students as "delinquents" or "vandals". She would have also reproached the channel for seeking people opposed to the student movement and stated that it was supported by three out of four French people. According to Impact, Elsa Marcel's comments had provoked the anger of Bérénice Levet, a professor and doctor of philosophy, who denounced it as an attack on her conception of the teaching profession and the educational institution. #DébatPublic #Justice #Éducation (translated)

Impact reported that the professor and doctor of philosophy Bérénice Levet lost her temper on BFMTV during an exchange with lawyer Elsa Marcel, who denounced police violence and reminded her that she wrote for Valeurs actuelles, described by Impact as a far-right magazine. Impact also indicated that Levet had already attracted attention on LCI during an exchange with 17-year-old Elwan, presenting her background after the young man's intervention. #Télévision #Philosophie #ViolencesPolicières (translated)