In Martigues, a lycée pupil hit in the face by a projectile during a blockade; IGPN brought in
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On 1 October in Martigues, a lycée pupil is hit in the face by a projectile during a blockade and hospitalised, eye and nose injured; the prosecutor's office does not confirm the projectile's origin.
Date
1 October 2026
Place
Martigues (13)
Context
School blockade
Legal follow-up
Investigation under way
The act of violence
Law enforcement → peopleAllegedSerious injury
According to the Aix-en-Provence public prosecutor's office quoted by RTL, a 17-year-old girl was hit in the face by a “projectile” (translated) during a blockade on 1 October and hospitalised, with injuries to the eye and nose; the seriousness of her eye injury remains to be established. The public prosecutor's office urges caution on the origin of the projectile: the involvement of an LBD (rubber-bullet launcher) is not yet established. According to RTL, which cites judicial sources, the IGPN (police internal affairs) has been tasked with an investigation into an alleged LBD shot.
LBD shot (rubber-bullet launcher) · Lycée pupil
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, during a blockade in Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône), a 17-year-old lycée pupil is hit in the face by a projectile. The Aix-en-Provence public prosecutor’s office tells RTL that she was hospitalised, with injuries to the eye and nose, that the seriousness of the eye injury remains to be established and that the origin of the projectile is not established: the public prosecutor’s office urges caution on the involvement of a rubber-bullet launcher.
RTL (7 October) lists this case among three additional investigations entrusted to the IGPN for alleged LBD shots, with Le Tremblay-en-France and Sartrouville, out of the eighteen investigations opened by the IGPN at that date in connection with the lycée pupils’ mobilisation, six of which concern alleged or established LBD shots, according to concordant and judicial sources cited by RTL. RTL speaks of an alleged LBD shot, according to judicial sources; the public prosecutor’s office, for its part, says that the origin of the projectile is not established. No source read says who threw the projectile.
What is missing to confirm
A second independent source: the RTL article is the only source read on this scene.
The origin of the projectile (LBD shot, stone or other), the lycée concerned, the exact place of the blockade (the coordinates are those of the centre of Martigues), the condition of the eye and the outcome of the investigation.
Press read on 2026-10-09: RTL (article); home pages of La Provence, France 3 Régions, Actu17, 20 Minutes, Marsactu and Sud Ouest, and the Martigues page of ICI: no mention of this scene.