On Monday 5 October 2026, about 400 people, according to the ICI La Rochelle journalist, gather in the area of the Dautet lycée. The national police are deployed; the protesters, first outside the lycée, are gradually pushed back into the surrounding streets (rue des Écoles, place de Verdun). According to ICI, tear gas is used when projectiles are thrown by protesters; the throwing of projectiles and Molotov cocktails by protesters that morning is the subject of the linked entry.
In this march, a 15-year-old student shows ICI a large bruise on his stomach. He asserts that it results from an LBD shot, fired after stones were thrown by other members of the march. ICI does not say it saw the shot and reports neither a reaction from the police or the prefecture, nor a medical consultation, nor a complaint.
Sud Ouest gathers the same account late in the morning: the student says he received the shot above the navel while he was “raising his arms” (translated), that “some threw stones from the back and the police replied with tear gas” (translated), and that he was bending down to put one out when he “took the impact” (translated); “I was on the ground, the police did not pay attention to me” (translated), he says.
Follow-up
No complaint, investigation or reaction from the police or the prefecture on this shot is reported in the articles read as of 2026-10-05.
What is missing to confirm
- A source other than the student’s own account on the origin of the injury: ICI and Sud Ouest each gathered it from him, without seeing the shot; a video, a medical report, the family or a reaction from the police or the prefecture would be needed.