Troyes: the prefecture says a police vehicle was hit by thrown projectiles near Marie-de-Champagne lycée
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 Troyes, the Aube prefecture states that police officers returning to their car near the lycée were targeted by thrown projectiles. Nature and damage not specified.
Date
1 October 2026
Place
Lycée Marie-de-Champagne (abords), Troyes (10)
Context
Gathering
Legal follow-up
Unknown
The act of violence
Protesters → propertyAllegedUnknown
According to the Aube prefecture, the police vehicle “was the target of thrown projectiles” (translated) as the police officers were returning to their car; the nature of the projectiles and the damage are not specified.
Vehicle · Police vehicle targeted by thrown projectiles (nature and damage not specified)
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 the morning of Thursday 1 October 2026, outside Marie-de-Champagne lycée in Troyes, an unmarked police car drives through a crowd of young people while spraying tear gas through its windows: this filmed scene is described in the linked entry.
In a statement sent on the evening of 2 October, the Aube prefecture places the events on 1 October near the lycée and puts forward that the police officers returning to their vehicle were the target of thrown projectiles (France 3 Grand Est; Canal 32 repeats the statement). According to the prefecture, up to 600 people were counted at the peak of the gathering, students from several schools and “people from outside the school environment” (translated) (France 3).
The articles read describe neither the nature of the projectiles, nor the damage to the vehicle, nor the identity of the perpetrators. In the descriptions read, the video broadcast does not show projectiles being thrown. The prefecture also reports two police officers injured during this gathering, without saying where, how or by whom.
What is missing to confirm
A source independent of the prefecture: France 3 and Canal 32 repeat its statement.
An image, a witness or a record of the projectiles thrown, of their nature and of any damage to the vehicle.
