On 1 October 2026 at 3:56 p.m. (UTC), LFI MP Antoine Léaument posts on X a 19-second video captioned: “Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois: a CPE pushed to the ground and a female student hit in the face who falls” (translated). In the video, filmed from the edge of a road in front of a national police van, a group of officers is visible near a building; a person in a light top and jeans approaches, then falls backwards onto the roadway and rolls on the ground, an officer holding a baton nearby, other officers grouped around a person on the ground. The video does not make it possible to see a blow to the face or to know who the person falling is. No lycée name appears in it.
On 2 October, Le Média publishes the account of a CPE at an Essonne lycée, without naming the town; the title of that article, however, speaks of “a lycée in Val-d’Oise” while its text says “Essonne (91)”: this internal contradiction is not resolved. She describes a “good-natured” blockade until it resumed around 2 p.m., the arrival of motorcycle officers then of police with shields whom she identifies as CRS riot police, a charge, then one of her students on the ground held by four police officers. She says she announced her role and was “violently shoved” by “the police chief”, fell on her back, received a kick in the ribs and was gassed on the ground. She mentions pain in the neck, back, ribs and throat, says she does not feel fit to return to work and plans to see her doctor; she is considering filing a complaint (no medical report is reported at this stage). Le Média says it is publishing images that “support” this account (translated).
None of the sources read expressly links this account to the scene in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois or to the MP’s video: the connection (same department, same day, a CPE shoved) is plausible but unconfirmed. No reaction from the prefecture, the public prosecutor’s office or the education authority (rectorat) was found.
What is missing to confirm
- Independent confirmation that the video was filmed in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, outside which lycée, and on what date and at what time.
- A media outlet or authority establishing the link between the CPE heard by Le Média and the MP’s video, and resolving the Essonne / Val-d’Oise contradiction in Le Média’s article.
- A medical report (certificate, ITT (days of total incapacity for work)) for the CPE; the identity and condition of the student mentioned.
- The response of the Essonne prefecture, the police or the education authority (rectorat); an actual filing of a complaint.
- A second media outlet that has done its own work: at this stage, the only detailed account is a single testimony.