On Monday 5 October 2026, a little before 8 a.m., as students are entering Vauquelin lycée (Paris 13th), firework mortars are fired; the first fires follow outside the metal door. Students are told to go inside and are sheltered: a second then a third wave of shots are heard, and heavy objects are thrown against the windows (franceinfo). About a hundred students remain confined from 8 a.m. to around 10 a.m., until the police and firefighters arrive, then go home; classes are suspended. This was the first call to blockade this lycée since the start of the movement (franceinfo).
According to the management, quoted by franceinfo and Europe 1, a group of young people dressed in black and hooded, “quite determined” (translated), turned up outside the lycée; it did not know them and states that they were not students of the school, which several students confirm to franceinfo. According to the initial findings, there were no injuries (franceinfo). No firework mortar shot is described as aimed at a specific person: only the damage to the lycée is retained as a fact.
The perpetrators are not identified: the category “Protesters” designates the context here (a call to blockade), not established perpetrators.
Follow-up
No arrest, complaint or investigation linked to this scene is reported in the sources read as of 2026-10-05.