On Monday 5 October 2026, new blockades take place around several lycées in Haute-Garonne. In front of the Eugène-Montel vocational lycée in Colomiers, the school head is injured in the shoulder by thrown stones, according to the school management staff union (SNPDEN) quoted by ICI. The prefecture announces several arrests and specifies, according to ICI, that the projectile was not aimed at the school head.
The prefecture’s statement, repeated by La Semaine des Pyrénées, describes a similar scene in other terms: a school head “hit by a thrown paving stone while she was intervening to call for calm in front of her school”, an “assault of extreme violence” whose perpetrator has not been found (translated). It does not say which lycée is meant; if it is indeed the same scene, the two versions differ (a projectile that was not aimed at the school head, or an assault). Neither designates a perpetrator. Across Haute-Garonne, the prefecture counts 34 arrests that day, 30 of them in the Toulouse urban area.
The mayor of Colomiers “firmly condemns these acts of violence” while judging the high-school students’ demands legitimate (translated) (ICI).
Follow-up
The prefecture says, in its general statement, that it is looking for the perpetrator of the paving-stone throw against a school head. No arrest specifically linked to this scene, no complaint and no later state of health are reported in the articles read as of 2026-10-05.
What is missing to confirm
- A second source that names Colomiers: the prefecture’s statement does not name the town, and ICI is the only outlet that reports the scene (the union and the prefecture are quoted there only by it).
- The detail of the projectile (stones or paving stone) and of the injury as given by the school head herself, her school or a medical report; ICI announced that the prefecture “is to detail the circumstances of the injury in the next few minutes” (translated).