On Thursday 1 October 2026, most lycées in Franche-Comté are blockaded by students from 7 a.m. (France 3). In Besançon, police officers are deployed outside the Jules-Haag lycée, where students gather; according to France 3, law enforcement use tear gas in the city that day.
At 12:42 p.m., France 3 Franche-Comté’s live coverage reports that “according to our journalist present at the demonstration outside the Jules Haag lycée this morning, a girl was violently thrown to the ground by a CRS officer with his shield” (translated). A video picked up by the outlet shows her shoved by police officers, then falling from a pavement onto the roadway. She says: “We were talking calmly with the police officers, telling them that we had the right to be angry and to demonstrate. We were not violent with them at all. One of their colleagues came at me and hit me hard with his shield, so I fell to the ground.” (translated) According to France 3, she is arrested shortly afterwards.
In the same live coverage, another Jules-Haag student, who was trying to enter the school, says she was “shoved and roughed up” by police officers who turned towards the students with smoke grenades (translated); this general account, with no specific act or place, is not counted as a fact.
What is missing to confirm
- A second independent source on the scene: another media outlet, the Doubs prefecture, the police, or a video from another angle; the detail of the head injury (France 3 does not specify it) and the prefecture’s reaction are reported nowhere.
- Read on the evening of 5 October: France 3 Franche-Comté (live coverage of 1 October), ICI Besançon (two articles of 29 September and 2 October, without this scene), Le Ch’ni (article of 1 October, which cites LBD (rubber-bullet launcher) shots and sting-ball grenades at Jules-Haag without describing this scene); L’Est Républicain not read (the site denies access to the server).