Alençon: mortars fired, a gendarme and a police officer slightly hurt outside Leclerc-Navarre lycée, per law enforcement
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 29 September, outside the Leclerc-Navarre lycée, a group of about fifteen people fires mortars at law enforcement; a gendarme and a police officer are slightly injured, according to them.
Date
29 September 2026
Place
Lycée Leclerc-Navarre, Alençon (61)
Context
School blockade
Legal follow-up
Unknown
The act of violence
Protesters → peopleAllegedMinor injury
According to the colonel commanding the Sarthe gendarmes (ICI, 29/09), a “virulent” (translated) group of about fifteen people fires mortars at law enforcement (he also mentions a Molotov cocktail) and a gendarme receives a punch to the face; according to the Alençon police, a police officer is slightly injured (bite and blows to the face). Injuries announced by law enforcement themselves (the colonel for the gendarme, the Alençon police for the police officer), with no confirmation by the prefecture, a magistrate or a medical finding: minor seriousness according to these services.
Projectiles thrown, Firework mortar, Blows · 2 victims: A gendarme and a police officer
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 the morning of Tuesday 29 September 2026, about 200 young people protest in front of the Leclerc-Navarre lycée in Alençon, with about thirty Sarthe gendarmes, the Alençon national police and the Orne gendarmerie on the scene (ICI).
According to the colonel commanding the Sarthe gendarmes, while the rest of the protesters were calm, a “virulent” (translated) group of about fifteen people fired mortars toward law enforcement; he also mentions a Molotov cocktail being fired. He states that a gendarme received a punch to the face and was slightly injured. The Alençon police specify that a police officer was slightly injured (bite and blows to the face). Five young people were arrested according to ICI that day.
The same day in front of the same school, a separate, filmed scene shows a female high-school student restrained by the neck by a police officer: see the dedicated entry. No source read says that the events described here precede or follow that scene.
What is missing to confirm
A second independent source: a single article (ICI) describes these events, based on law enforcement.
Confirmation by the Orne prefecture, the public prosecutor’s office or a medical finding of the injuries.
Confirmation of the Molotov cocktail: only the colonel mentions it.