Nancy: protesters fire firework mortars at police officers at the corner of rue Saint-Jean and rue du Pont-Mouja
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 5 October at around 11:40 a.m. in Nancy, a Lorraine Actu journalist sees protesters firing mortars toward law enforcement, rue Saint-Jean. Police respond with tear gas grenades.
Date
5 October 2026
Place
Nancy (54)
Context
Demonstration
Legal follow-up
Unknown
The act of violence
Protesters → peopleEstablishedUnknown
According to the Lorraine Actu live coverage, whose journalists are on the scene, protesters fire firework mortars toward law enforcement at the corner of rue du Pont-Mouja and rue Saint-Jean at around 11:40 a.m.; the outlet also describes projectiles being thrown, to which the police respond with tear gas grenades. No source links any injured person to this scene.
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 Monday 5 October 2026, the high-school mobilisation resumes in Nancy. In its live coverage, Lorraine Actu writes that at 11:40 a.m. “protesters fire mortars toward law enforcement at the corner of rue du Pont-Mouja and rue Saint-Jean” (translated). In its article on the grenade that fell onto a balcony at the same intersection at around noon (see the linked case), the outlet specifies that the police officers were facing “mortar fire and projectiles thrown by protesters” (translated) and responded with tear gas grenades.
The same day, according to Lorraine Actu, the police reported 12 arrests in Nancy and two injured police officers (one with a rib injury during an arrest, the other in the back); no source links these injuries to this scene. ICI Lorraine describes, in the morning, projectiles being thrown and firework mortars being fired in front of the Poincaré and Jeanne-d’Arc schools, without citing this intersection.
What is missing to confirm
A second independent source on this scene: Meurthe-et-Moselle prefecture, police, or another media outlet. Read on the evening of 5 October: Lorraine Actu (article and live coverage), France 3 Grand Est (Nancy page and article of the day), ICI Lorraine (two articles of the day); L’Est Républicain not read (the site blocks the VPS).
The number of shots and any injured police officers at this location.