In Saint-Denis, three students arrested outside Paul-Éluard: students say they were gassed or struck
Unconfirmed report. The facts below are reported as their sources present them, without sufficient confirmation to date: they are counted separately in the site’s figures. What is missing is listed at the end of the entry.
On 25 September, police intervene at the Paul-Éluard blockade: three minors arrested. Testimonies and a lawyer report blows and gas; police prefecture and prosecutor did not respond.
Date
25 September 2026
Place
Lycée Paul-Éluard, Saint-Denis (93)
Context
School blockade
Legal follow-up
Unknown
The act of violence
Law enforcement → peopleAllegedMinor injury
According to several testimonies gathered by the Bondy Blog, students were gassed, struck or pinned to the ground during the intervention. According to the lawyer of an arrested student, who relays his account, he was kicked while on the ground, then slapped and insulted during his transport; she describes a serious eye injury and states that he had not seen a doctor during his police custody. The severity assigned (injury described, with no hospitalisation or ITT (days of total incapacity for work) reported) follows this description by the lawyer, without a medical report.
Blows, Gas / baton strikes · 3 victims: Minor students, one with an eye injury
Established: recognised by a magistrate, a video authenticated by a news outlet, or a medical report. Alleged: reported, neither confirmed nor denied. Disputed: reported, then denied by an authority.
On Friday 25 September 2026, from 8 a.m., students blockade the entrance of the Lycée Paul-Éluard, in Saint-Denis. During the morning, law enforcement intervenes and three minor students are arrested (Bondy Blog). Several dozen people then gather in front of the central police station to demand their release.
According to several testimonies gathered on the spot by the Bondy Blog, students were gassed, struck or pinned to the ground. The lawyer who assisted several of the teenagers relays the account of one of them: kicks on the ground, slaps and insults during transport, a serious eye injury, no doctor seen during police custody. She also says she reported to the prosecutor other violence that was relayed to her.
Judicial follow-up reported by the Bondy Blog: the arrested young people left the police station, with no supervision measure for one of them, who is to appear at a later hearing.
Asked, neither the police prefecture nor the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office had responded on these facts at the time the article was published.
What is missing to confirm
A version from the authorities: police prefecture or public prosecutor’s office, neither responded to the Bondy Blog.
A second independent source on the 25 September intervention and on the alleged violence; only the Bondy Blog was read.
A medical report on the eye injury, whose severity rests only on the lawyer’s description.
