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Press Briefs reported nearly 7,000 police custody cases, 86% of which involved minors, and indicated that the majority had not led to legal proceedings at this stage. The account described these arrests as a massive and unprecedented measure aimed at containing the mobilization of young people. Several cited observers viewed this as a form of intimidation, while Press Briefs believed this practice infringed on the right to protest and risked normalizing disproportionate police and judicial responses. The account added that the preventive use of police custody had already been documented during the Yellow Vests movement. Relying on independent press articles, Press Briefs relayed testimonies from high school students reporting violent detention conditions, symptoms of post-traumatic stress, forced undressings, and physical or psychological violence. A 15-year-old reportedly recounted being slammed against a concrete bed and hit on the head by police and then insulted. A complaint had been filed, according to the account, which also indicated that the police prefecture had not responded to Mediapart's questions about the reported statements. Mohammed, a 16-year-old high school student in Saint-Denis, reportedly stated that police had hit the bars of his cell during the night to wake up the detainees and had targeted him with a racist insult. The mother of Noham, also 16, claimed that her son had been hit in the liver and face after asking why he had been arrested. Adam's mother also denounced violence against young protesters. Press Briefs added that several teenage girls and boys reported sexist and racist remarks from police, and complaints had been filed. Anne Savinel-Barras, president of Amnesty International France, expressed her concern over the repression of the student movement, believing that the young people's demands for education and health were met with prohibitions on demonstrations and disproportionate police violence. The NGO stated that it would support people peacefully protesting and defend the right to demonstrate. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights also expressed concern about the situation in France and notably called for a proportional use of force. #jeunesse #manifestation #répression (translated)

Louis France Kuzikesa considered that a 20-minute speech, free of insults or disparaging remarks, caricatures, or denigration, reflects a culture of statesmen able to address governance issues beyond personal disputes. He presented it as a rationalized political debate, intended, in his view, for citizens of a certain level. #Recteur #Politique #Gouvernance #Débat (translated)

Blue White Red! greeted the police officer Reda Belhaj, believing that he had shown patience and courage in the face of insults and moral lessons from a 17-year-old high school student, whom he described as heavily influenced by an ideology. He published his message with the hashtag #TheGreatConfrontation. #LaGrandeConfrontation https://t.co/3YhxSOIpOG #Respect #Courage #Policier (translated)

David Perrotin wrote that after the revelations about Jordan Bardella, the National Rally had waged a campaign of "unprecedented" violence against Mediapart. He stated that elected officials had insulted and defamed the authors of the revelations and referred to them as "terrorists." According to him, Mediapart subsequently received thousands of insults and serious death threats. https://t.co/LVuxi5u3yO https://t.co/n1QatJgXTY #Mediapart #LibertéDeLaPresse #LibertéDexpression (translated)

Serious disruptions, including insults and racist remarks, were reported during high school classes via videoconference in the Alpes-Maritimes, caused by the intrusion of individuals using pseudonyms related to terrorism. #PerturbationsScolaires #VisioÉducation #ValeursRépublicaines (translated)

The author asked whether one could deny the existence of a problem of racism within the police, referencing testimonies from high school students who allegedly faced racist insults while in custody and the findings of the Defender of Rights regarding the existence of racial profiling. https://t.co/soz5ZgJVRg #Racisme #Police #Justice #FR (translated)

Golden Hornets wrote that the announcement published last night had generated numerous reactions and that, despite the lack of complete confirmation, VITA's future in RL could legitimately raise concerns and require explanations. The group reminded that insults and threats directed at players remain intolerable. #VITA #RL #communauté (translated)

Nathanaël Combary stated that he had received hundreds of insulting and threatening messages in recent hours in response to his commitment to high school students. He indicated that he was a member of Renaissance, a commitment he said he had never hidden. He recalled that Renouveau lycéen was founded in 2021 by young people from various parties, including LFI, NPA, LR, PS, and Renaissance, as well as by young people without political affiliation. According to him, its members gathered around a common charter and defended the success of students all over France, without requiring them to choose a political side. Combary specified that he had been a student since the start of the 2026 school year, but that he continued to represent high school students due to the lack of newly elected representatives. He explained that the leaders of high school organizations were usually renewed after the elections of the Student Life Councils, citing the presidents of the Union Syndicale Lycéenne and the association Les Lycéens! He also denied being a spokesperson for Minerva. He said he had started an internship there on August 31, 2026, but had ceased that activity before his first speech. Finally, Combary stated that he would continue to defend his convictions and the cause of high school students with the freedom allowed to him by Renouveau lycéen, contrary to what was happening, according to him, everywhere. #Lycéens #Engagement #Renaissance (translated)

Ahmed El Khannouss, president of the CPAS of Molenbeek, filed a complaint after receiving death threats and racist insults on social media, denouncing the trivialization of hate speech and calling for accountability from the platforms. #HaineEnLigne #DiscoursDeHaine #Molenbeek (translated)

Bastion reported, citing Le Progrès, that an undercover police officer who was on his way to work had been thrown to the ground and beaten by four people on a tram in Lyon. The officer had intervened after the group spat on users, insulted them, and pushed them; one of the individuals then recognized him as a police officer. Bastion indicated that the officer had been injured in the face, had a bruise on his eye, and might have a fracture. He had filed a complaint, and an investigation had been opened to identify and apprehend the perpetrators, he added. #Lyon #Sécurité #Violence (translated)

Police violence, insults from police officers, threats of custody, etc. All of this legitimately destroys the trust of the population in its police. The testimony of this lady who took care of the young man who was left blind in one eye is a poignant demonstration. https://t.co/cI9h8soO8c #ViolencesPolicières #ConfiancePublique #Justice (translated)

10 days since the movement in high schools began. Have you heard a single response from the government to the demands of the youth? Nothing. Just insults, disdain, and threats. https://t.co/BIsJcR2dRo #Lycées #Mouvement #Jeunesse #FR (translated)

I bring all my solidarity to the high school students' protest movement! At the Blaise Cendrars high school, the police violently repressed a peaceful mobilization the day before yesterday: physical violence, racist insults, and flashball shots directed at a parent of a student. The minister https://t.co/BXMM1bzwMd #Solidarité #Lycéens #Contestations #FR (translated)

⚡️FLASH - Mobilization #highschool: the deputy Clémentine #Autain calls on the police prefect after the intervention of law enforcement in #Sevran. The elected official reports the use of mounted police, several arrests, 3 GAV (garde à vue), a shot from a LBD (defense ball launcher) into the legs of a representative of parents of students, as well as "numerous insults" from police towards young people and educational staff. "This mobilization deserves political responses. Not repression," she denounces. https://t.co/RcS26d2ZOH #Mobilisation #Éducation #Justice (translated)