On Monday 5 October 2026, another day of high-school mobilisation in Nancy, face-offs pit protesters against police officers in the city centre. According to Lorraine Actu, the scene takes place around noon, at the corner of rue Saint-Jean and rue du Pont-Mouja: while police officers face firework mortar fire and thrown projectiles (see the linked case), they respond with tear gas grenades to disperse the crowd. One of them lands on the balcony of an apartment and smoke rises into the homes.
The video published by Lorraine Actu shows the façade of a building on the street, white smoke escaping from a balcony on an upper floor and rising along the windows, then police officers entering the building and firefighters deploying the aerial ladder. Questioned on the spot by the outlet, a resident who lives directly above the balcony that was hit recounts that her apartment was “full of smoke” (translated) despite her efforts to air it out: “It stings the eyes and it burns.” (translated)
The interdepartmental director of the national police of Meurthe-et-Moselle, reached by Lorraine Actu, confirms: a grenade contains “a dozen pellets” (translated) that separate to cover an area, and “one of them landed on the balcony and caused the smoke, then the firefighters’ intervention” (translated). He describes the shot as regulation: the launcher fires “necessarily in a high arc” (translated), and since the street is narrow, “the launcher had to be raised even higher” (translated), hence “a slight imprecision that caused no damage, apart from the smoke” (translated).
The gravity retained (minor injury) comes from the pain described by the resident herself; no source mentions any care or medical report. The video was picked up the same day by an X news account, with no new element.
What is missing
- The words of the other residents of the building and any medical report.
- Any complaint or referral to the IGPN (police internal affairs).
- Local press read on the evening of 5 October: Lorraine Actu (article and live coverage), France 3 Grand Est (Nancy page and the day’s article), ICI Lorraine (two articles of the day); only the Lorraine Actu articles mention the scene. L’Est Républicain not read (the site blocks the VPS).