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"It was a timeless experience. There were soldiers everywhere, police. The judge was there. The defendants were in a glass cage. It's extremely impressive, we felt very small," Anna Simon tells them, being part of the project dedicated to Samuel Paty as well. #SamuelPaty #LibertéDéexpression #GénérationPaty (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)

"I do not accept attacks on the profession of police officers. Mobilization of high school students: 'I do not accept attacks on the profession of police officers,' asserts Andréa Kotarac, spokesperson for the RN." #RaphaëlGlucksmann #PrimaireGauche #PolitiqueFrançaise (translated)

"You are a bit harsh to say that your police friends are firing cannonballs at the young people. No, they are just content to beat them up, to blind them, to mutilate them," accused Jean-Luc Mélenchon, referring to Mr. Attal's comments, who had claimed that LFI was using high school students as "cannon fodder." #Mélenchon2027 #Parcoursup #Lycéens (translated)

"We have broken hearts. Everyone is traumatized and nervous," says Mariel Martinez, a social worker met near the shooting site. "Here, in this neighborhood, we work hard. We place great importance on family life. The fact that this happened in the middle of several schools, at 4 p.m., is shocking." New York has social workers, police officers, and local agencies capable of ensuring our protection. We do not need ICE. It brings us nothing. It only breaks families and inflicts trauma on our children and communities," adds Mariel Martinez. #JusticePourLesImmigrés #NewYork #Fusillade (translated)

The author indicated a desire to strengthen the ranks of the municipal police in Nice by focusing on recruitment, compensation, and access to housing. He added that the goal was to provide municipal police officers with the necessary means. https://t.co/DtNPdjtlgU #Police #Sécurité #Nice (translated)

Press briefs reported that a 31-year-old woman accused a police officer of sexual assault during a high school protest in Paris. She claimed that the officer had rubbed her crotch for several seconds. Her partner, a municipal elected official, confirmed that he had heard her scream that she was being sexually assaulted. The woman indicated that many police officers were not wearing their official identification numbers, which complicated the identification of the officer. An investigation had been opened after she filed a complaint with the IGPN. https://t.co/Czzbr9MXxU #AgressionSexuelle #Paris #Justice (translated)

Matthieu Valet mentioned a refusal to comply in Charenton-le-Pont (94). He described the individuals involved as particularly dangerous and claimed that one of them had deliberately backed into a moving police car to escape the officers, risking running them over. He criticized left-wing individuals who often called for filming police interventions for not commenting on this incident, while he believed they regularly criticized the police. #Police #Violence #CharentonLePont (translated)

Camille described a method used, according to her, by protesters during clashes with the police in France in December 2018: Yellow Vests would have thrown paint bombs at the visors and shields of the police in order to blind them and hinder their maneuvers. https://t.co/MOYt05nw0G #GiletsJaunes #Manifestation #France (translated)

Press Briefs reported, citing Le Monde, that Eden, 14 years old, had lost the ability to speak after being hit in the face by a tear gas grenade fired by a police officer on September 28 in Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône. The projectile was allegedly fired at point-blank range and nearly broke all of his upper teeth, tore part of his gums, and caused a double jaw fracture. The police officer had been charged with violence resulting in mutilation or permanent disability and placed under judicial supervision. The publication added that students and teachers at the Château-d’Épluches high school remained in shock. A teacher was wondering how to support the students after the incident, while Ryan, a friend of Eden, had hung a sign reading "Justice for Eden" on the school gate and sent a photo to his friend. Eden had replied to him with a heart emoji. https://t.co/B2wcjxMAPH #JusticePourEden #ViolencesPolicières #LibertéDexpression (translated)

Clémentine Autain denounces police violence during high school demonstrations, accusing the government of trampling on the rule of law and failing to ensure the independence of investigations into police abuses. #ÉtatDeDroit #ViolencesPolicières #ManifestationsLycéennes (translated)

Matthieu Valet criticized on BFM TV an exchange with student Younès Dufresne, whom he presented as far-left. He wrote that the journalist had to remind the student several times to behave and reproached him for not referring to the people who had vandalized the university in Nantes as thugs and transformed it into a ZAD. Valet also claimed that stones had been gathered high near the windows to be thrown at the police, and he questioned the three-day delay before the university president requested the evacuation of the premises. He recalled that in 2022, she had written to students urging them to block Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election. He concluded by stating that the perpetrators of the damage were vandalizing the places, that the police were being attacked, and that taxpayers were bearing the cost, adding that the French could no longer tolerate it. #France #Justice #Société (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)

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)

Brigitte Jullien, former head of the IGPN, emphasizes the distinction between violent police officers and the idea of police violence, asserting that this would amount to institutionalizing violence within the National Police, while the courts are currently dealing with cases of protesters arrested in France. #ViolencePolicière #Justice #Manifestations (translated)