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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)

Révolution Permanente indicated that thousands of high school students and college students arrived at Bastille after several blockades organized in the morning. The media wrote that the groups of young people gathered to demonstrate towards the square and claimed that the movement was not weakening despite the repression and maneuvers of the government. https://t.co/kSeIotlPwV #Paris #Manifestation #Jeunesse (translated)

Permanente Revolution indicated that railway workers from SUD Rail had formed a chain at the front of the procession heading towards République. The media added that the railway workers from the processions in Épinay-sur-Seine and Saint-Denis represented, according to them, the necessary convergence between youth and the labor movement. https://t.co/R97kMRMpNU #Paris #Cheminots #MouvementOuvrier (translated)

The author indicated that the first rallies had left in several cities in the morning. He reported that the Student Trade Union was claiming 1,800 high schools were blocked, disrupted, or closed. #manifestation #lycées #blocus #colère #grève https://t.co/Jo7gGrWneI #manifestation #lycées #grève #FR (translated)

Anthony Smith believed that police violence, like all violence, should be condemned, and denounced what he considered to be a "double standard." Citing statements reported by France 3 Champagne-Ardenne, he indicated that the prosecutor of Marne had dismissed on October 2 the hypothesis of plainclothes police throwing an object, rather seeing it as a sign of the growing presence of people who were not high school students in the marches. On October 4, the prosecutor stated that a police officer had thrown a smoke grenade within the legal framework of maintaining order and expressed his support for law enforcement. (translated)

The police are completely overwhelmed in #Strasbourg in the face of the scale of the student mobilization. They do not have enough forces to divide among ten blockades + all the processions forming from north to south. The city belongs to the students, who are expressing all their rage. #lycéens (translated)

À Paris, démonstration de force citoyenne contre les violences sexuelles. À l’appel de la coalition féministe et enfantiste, des cortèges ont défilé dans une centaine de villes de France pour réclamer l’examen, dès cet automne, d’une « loi intégrale ». https://t.co/Z6iHKm9C0u #ViolencesSexuelles #DémonstrationCitoyenne #LoiIntégrale #FR

Une mobilisation exceptionnelle est en cours en Bolivie ! De tout le pays, les Boliviens ont marché dans d'immenses cortèges en direction de la capitale : mineurs, indigènes, ouvriers, paysans, unis pour leur dignité. Un objectif : chasser le président d'extrême droite Rodrigo https://t.co/7jJZnosJye #Bolivie #Mobilisation #Dignité #BO