Clermont-Ferrand: Ambroise-Brugière school head slightly burned in the face by a mortar, per education authority head
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 1 October in Clermont-Ferrand, the education authority head says the school head is slightly injured in the head by a mortar shot, attributed to masked individuals from outside the school.
Date
1 October 2026
Place
Lycée Ambroise-Brugière, Clermont-Ferrand (63)
Context
Gathering
Legal follow-up
No known complaint
The act of violence
Protesters → peopleEstablishedMinor injury
The head of the Clermont-Ferrand education authority (académie) states, in a statement quoted by ICI Pays d'Auvergne and France 3 Auvergne, that the school head was slightly injured in the head by a mortar shot during a high-school gathering; this shot “reportedly came from a group present near the gathering, made up of individuals from outside the school, masked and hooded” (translated). According to ICI, he has a slight burn on the face; according to the education authority (rectorat) questioned by France 3, he was treated on the spot by the school nurse and has no total incapacity for work. The France Télévisions journalist present in the morning heard a few fireworks being fired without being able to say whether they were mortars.
Firework mortar · School head
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 Thursday 1 October 2026, high-school students gather in front of the Ambroise-Brugière lycée in Clermont-Ferrand. The France Télévisions journalist present in the morning describes a gathering without major disorder, with a bin set on fire on the tramway tracks (France 3). During the morning, the school head is injured in the head by a mortar shot, according to a statement from the education authority head, who condemns it “with the utmost firmness” (translated) and attributes it to a group of individuals from outside the school, masked and hooded. According to ICI, the school head and about fifteen staff members had previously been “confronted” (translated) by these individuals; no damage is done to the school, which remains open.
The rectorat adds to France 3 that the education authority head made a report to the public prosecutor under article 40 of the code of criminal procedure and that no complaint is mentioned at this stage.
Follow-up
Report to the public prosecutor by the education authority head (France 3). No complaint, arrest linked to this scene or public prosecutor’s investigation is reported in the articles read as of 2026-10-05.
What is missing to confirm
A second source independent of the education authority head’s statement: ICI Pays d’Auvergne and France 3 Auvergne both repeat it (France 3 adds details from the rectorat, the same source); it would take the public prosecutor’s office, the police, the school head himself or a witness identified in a media outlet, or a video.
The author of the shot, whom the education authority head attributes in the conditional (“reportedly carried out” (translated)) to masked individuals from outside.