Dijon: firework mortars and stones thrown at police outside Le Castel lycée, per the prefecture and unions
On 30 September, 50 then 100 people, often hooded, fire firework mortars at law enforcement outside Le Castel lycée. No injured person announced by the authorities.
Date
30 September 2026
Place
Lycée Le Castel (abords), Dijon (21)
Context
School blockade
Legal follow-up
Unknown
The acts of violence (3)
Protesters → peopleEstablishedNo physical injury
According to the Côte-d'Or prefecture, “50, then 100 hostile individuals, many of them hooded, gathered outside Le Castel lycée, then fired firework mortars on numerous occasions towards the security forces” (translated); France 3 also reports stones and pieces of wood thrown. Members of the student inter-union confirm the projectile throwing to France 3, which they say was a reaction to the police. Severity: according to France 3, “no injured person is to be deplored” (translated) at the time its article was published; the prefecture did not officially announce any either.
According to “State services” quoted by Dijon Actualités, projectiles were also thrown towards some students who were trying to enter the school; no other source read describes this act. Severity: France 3 writes, without singling out any victims, that “no injured person is to be deplored” (translated).
Projectiles thrown · High-school students
Protesters → propertyEstablishedMinor damage
According to the Côte-d'Or prefecture, bins are placed across the road and some are set on fire.
Street furniture, Fire · Bins moved onto the roadway, some set on fire
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 Wednesday 30 September 2026 at around 7:45 a.m., students gather outside Le Castel lycée in Dijon to protest against overcrowded classes and the lack of replacement teachers; according to France 3, the start of the blockade is calm before the situation worsens when the police officers arrive. The chief commissioner says he had received information the day before of a call to gather outside the lycée with firework mortars, hence a preventive deployment.
The prefecture describes 50 then 100 individuals, many of them hooded, firework mortars fired on numerous occasions towards the security forces, bins placed across the road and partly set on fire; the police officers respond with tear-gas grenades (France 3, Dijon Actualités). France 3 also notes stones and pieces of wood thrown. The student inter-union confirms projectiles were thrown “but only in reaction to the totally disproportionate repression by the police against minors” (translated); it and several anonymous teachers denounce a “disproportionate” use of force, tear gas on students “who were not violent” and the sending in of BAC (anti-crime brigade) officers (translated). These general assessments do not describe a specific act, victim or moment: they are given here as attributed context, not as facts.
Follow-up
France 3 counts three arrests during the day in Dijon; Dijon Actualités, repeating the prefecture’s tally, two arrests in Côte-d’Or that day. No injured person is officially announced. No specific prosecution is reported for this scene in the sources read as of 2026-10-05. The next day, 1 October, Le Castel is blockaded again and the police officers use tear gas (Dijon Actualités).