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Didier Maïsto accused Emmanuel Macron of having confined a generation for months, closed high schools, and isolated teenagers, while he was going to the theater with his wife. He believed that these measures had contributed to the distress of young people and criticized the fact that their anger was treated as a public order issue. To support his statements, Maïsto cited figures he attributed to Public Health France and the National Suicide Observatory: nearly one in five high school students would have shown a significant risk of depression and suicidal thoughts in the past year, and 15% would have already attempted suicide. He also indicated that hospitalizations for self-inflicted injuries among young women aged 15 to 19 had reached 516 per 100,000 in 2023, an increase of nearly 50% since 2017, while the youth suicide rate is said to have increased by 40% between 2020 and 2022. According to him, more than half of students reported depressive symptoms during the second lockdown. Maïsto added that the deterioration of young people's mental health had started in the mid-2010s and that the lockdowns had accelerated it. He also mentioned isolation, academic pressure, Parcoursup, social media, and precarity, estimating that girls were particularly affected. He concluded that young people did not need to be targeted by defense ball launchers. #SantéMentaleJeunes #SantéMentale #Jeunesse #Dépression (translated)

The author recalled that in 2010, after a young person lost an eye due to a shot from a LBD, Nicolas Sarkozy had decided on a moratorium on the use of these weapons. He asked whether war weapons could truly address anger. https://t.co/LXLIxdsjUz #LBD #Justice #Sécurité #FR (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)

Ilan Gabet wrote that two police officers, one armed with a baton and the other with a LBD, turned back in the face of young people mobilized behind a barricade. He noted that the images were filmed in front of the Catholic Institute of Paris. https://t.co/NTrmR31QPA #Police #Mobilisation #Paris (translated)

"We do not shoot LBD, we do not shoot grenades against our children" 7-October: "We must think of the more than 1,200 victims," declares Fabien Roussel, PCF candidate for the presidential election, who also denounces "a state terrorism from an extreme right government, that of Mr. Netanyahu." #Parcoursup #MobilisationLycéenne #FranceGronde (translated)

And this is despite the evidence of dialogue and some concrete gestures, such as that of the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, who after the outrage caused by the serious incident with an anti-encirclement grenade that exploded, severing the hand of a boy in Lens, in the north, ordered the suspension of this type of weapon, called Lbd. #ProtestaStudentesca #DialogoTraGovernoEStudenti #MobilitazioneGiovanile (translated)

"All these weapons, admittedly non-lethal but classified as military material, must be banned." In a completely different wavelength, the Secretary of the Socialist Party and presidential candidate Olivier Faure stated that the announced abandonment of stun grenades by the Minister of the Interior today is not enough and that rubber ball throwers, known as LBD, must also be banned. #Γαλλία #μαθητικές_κινητοποιήσεις #βία (translated)

The Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, announces the temporary suspension of the use of stun grenades, while the secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, also calls for a ban on LBDs, that is, defense bullet launchers. #Francia #ProtesteStudentesche #SicurezzaPubblica (translated)

The Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, announces the temporary suspension of the use of stun grenades, while the secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, also calls for a ban on LBDs, meaning defense projectile launchers. #Francia #ProtesteStudentesche #SicurezzaPubblica (translated)

Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF and presidential candidate, firmly states that it is unacceptable to fire LBDs or grenades at children, following a massive mobilization that tests the government's response to the current crisis. #FabienRoussel #PCF #Mobilisation (translated)

The author accused journalists of denying, in his opinion, Laurent Nuñez's role in the repression. He recalled that the latter had explicitly called for not to show restraint and to use all means, including LBDs and grenades. https://t.co/bTfo6S6Oiq #Répression #Sécurité #LibertéDexpression #FR (translated)

Jean-Luc Mélenchon claimed that at the end of a demonstration, the police had surrounded the protesters and used tear gas, while the media filmed the response of panicked young people. He stated that maintaining order relied on tear gas, LBDs (defense ball launchers), and harassment through images, and denounced a complicity that he found disgusting. #Manifestation #Liberté #DroitsHumains (translated)