Saint-Denis: mortar fired at police, cobblestones and a plainclothes officer's car damaged outside the Paul-Éluard lycée
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 Paul-Éluard lycée, Europe 1 describes a mortar fired at police and cobblestones; according to the Paris police prefect, a plainclothes officer's car is damaged.
Date
29 September 2026
Place
Lycée Paul-Éluard, Saint-Denis (93)
Context
School blockade
Legal follow-up
Unknown
The acts of violence (2)
Protesters → peopleAllegedUnknown
According to Europe 1, a young man fired a firework mortar towards the police officers and students threw cobblestones. No authority is quoted on this point and no injured person is reported.
According to the Paris police prefect (Le Parisien, quoted by franceinfo), the bodywork of the plainclothes officer's vehicle is damaged; the Bobigny public prosecutor's office confirms a complaint against persons unknown for damage and specifies that the mayor, present near the vehicle, is not implicated as matters stand.
Vehicle · Bodywork of a female police officer's personal vehicle damaged (nature not specified)
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 Tuesday 29 September 2026, the day of the national call to blockade lycées, hundreds of students block access to the Paul-Éluard lycée, in Saint-Denis (Europe 1). The CRS riot police charges and tear-gas grenades described in the same article appear in the linked entry.
Still according to Europe 1, a young man fires a firework mortar towards the police officers and students throw cobblestones.
The same morning, a car accelerates among young people outside the lycée (linked entry). According to the Paris police prefect (Le Parisien, quoted by franceinfo), the bodywork of the vehicle is damaged. The Bobigny public prosecutor’s office, quoted by franceinfo (02/10), confirms that the driver is a police officer “in plain clothes in her personal vehicle” (translated), that she filed a complaint against persons unknown for damage, and that the mayor, present near the vehicle, is not implicated as matters stand. According to the mayor’s entourage, he had hit the bumper to calm the driver.
What is missing to confirm
A second source that itself describes the mortar and the cobblestones: Europe 1 is the only one, with no authority quoted.
The nature and extent of the damage to the vehicle, and the perpetrator: the Paris police prefect and the public prosecutor’s office do not specify them.
