On the morning of Friday 2 October 2026, the student mobilisation continues in Drôme and Ardèche. According to ICI, the morning is “particularly tense” (translated) in Montélimar outside the Catalins lycée: law enforcement intervene and use tear gas, the young people (“and not necessarily high-school students”, writes ICI) respond with stone throwing and mortar fire. A police officer is injured: open wound to the leg according to ICI, knee injury according to Chérie FM, which specifies that she was taken to hospital; both sources attribute 15 days of ITT to her.
Chérie FM adds that violence and damage were committed at the lycée and at a restaurant in the town and that police vehicles were “targeted” (translated); the source does not describe these acts, which are therefore not retained as facts of this entry. According to ICI, the prefecture of the Drôme records that evening seven injured, five of them police officers, and 31 arrests in the département (34 over the day with the Ardèche).
Follow-up
No arrest, complaint or court decision linked to this police officer’s injury is reported in the sources read as of 2026-10-05. The academic director decides on remote classes for several lycées in Romans, Valence and Montélimar on 5 and 6 October, and the prefect of the Drôme bans demonstrations around five schools (Chérie FM).