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The lawyer of the young man who received a knee strike to the face from a police officer in the Place de la Bastille emphasizes the need to be uncompromising in the face of excesses, as an investigation has been opened by the Paris public prosecutor's office. #ViolencePolicière #Manifestation #PlaceDeLaBastille (translated)

Fdesouche.com reported that the day after the high school demonstration, journalist Tony Pittaro filmed graffiti on the base of the July Column and on a lion's head at the Place de la Bastille. According to the media, Pittaro denounced the vandalism and stated that the perpetrators took pleasure in destroying everything. Fdesouche.com also clarified that the monument was a mausoleum. https://t.co/ADZlOiIOku #Lycéens #Bastille #Monuments (translated)

Fdesouche.com, a news review, wrote that among the hundreds of messages tagged the day before on the July column, Place de la Bastille in Paris, only about seven had a connection, sometimes distant, with the conditions of high school students. https://t.co/wtpeqCDnEK https://t.co/bVPLL5WStQ #Paris #Bastille #Lycéens (translated)

The People's Union! indicated that the video of the crowded Place de la Bastille had gone viral internationally and had been viewed several million times. The movement also wrote that the suburbs influenced Paris, and Paris influenced the rest of the world. #Bastille #Viral #Influence (translated)

An investigation has been opened by the Paris prosecutor's office after a police officer kneeled a protester during an arrest in Place de la Bastille, bringing the total number of investigations assigned to the IGPN to at least 21 since the beginning of the student movement. #Police #Justice #Manifestation (translated)

Matthew Valet opposed the withdrawal of stun grenades, believing that the incident in Lens, where a young man lost a hand, did not justify disarming the police. He added that a police officer or gendarme could not be held responsible if someone picked up a grenade at the moment of its explosion. Referring to the events of the previous day at the Place de la Bastille, he claimed that the absence of grenades and LBD (flash-ball launchers) in the face of individuals determined to attack the police risked causing a "bloodbath." He questioned whether this would lead to more confrontations at close quarters and injuries. Valet stated that he felt Emmanuel Macron preferred to see a police officer hospitalized rather than a rioter imprisoned. He argued that disarming police officers exposed them to injury and reminded that they were parents wearing a uniform. He also criticized the Magistrates' Union, accusing it of complacency towards the far left. According to him, excusing violence contributed to its rooting in France. #sécurité #violence #police (translated)

French students have “retaken the Bastille”, says Jean-Luc Mélenchon, after a mass rally in Paris. Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses the US of “unwillingness” to help Ukraine. And former New Zealand PM Helen Clark joins us on critical minerals as MEP Rima Hassan faces fallout over flags row. #EuropeToday #StudentProtests #UkraineAid

Matthieu Valet denounced the management of law enforcement during the violence at the Place de la Bastille in Paris. He claimed that the CRS 8 was protecting the Panthéon, where Emmanuel Macron was with the German federal president, while clashes were taking place at Bastille, and deemed this situation unacceptable. He also indicated that the police started their shift at 6 AM and that the administration only provided them with an applesauce and a piece of fruit to last through the day. According to him, they were asked to face stones and Molotov cocktails without being provided a proper meal. Valet challenged the statements that the events had gone well, apart from a few incidents at the end of the day. He asserted that a chimney had been thrown from a building onto police officers at Bastille and that a police station in Bordeaux had been set on fire while police officers were inside. He stated that violent individuals wanted to kill police officers and praised the work of police officers and gendarmes. #Bastille #Police #France (translated)

Press briefs mentioned nearly 113 months of Macron's presidency and claimed that footage filmed on the same day in Place de la Bastille showed a mobilized youth being violently repressed, like many opponents who took to the streets in recent years. https://t.co/yT85HoVgB8 #France #Politique #Jeunesse (translated)