On Tuesday 6 October 2026, the day of “act III” of the high-school mobilisation, several thousand people (4,000 according to the unions, about 3,000 at the peak of the march according to L’Est Républicain) march in Nancy from place Carnot, with high-school students, university students, parents and National Education unions; the prefecture has banned demonstrations in the hyper-centre until 7 October. ICI Lorraine describes a calm day until the end of the afternoon: a face-off under the Arc Héré around 3 p.m., unions forming a cordon between protesters and police officers, then, around 4 p.m., the resumption of the march along rue Saint-Jean and “a volley of tear gas fired by law enforcement” (translated).
A trade unionist placed near the police officers “to maintain a security cordon between them and the young people” (translated) tells ICI that no warning was given, and all the high-school and university students questioned say the same; L’Est Républicain describes, around 4:36 p.m., gas fired after stones were thrown at the police officers by “a few young people in the second line” (translated), among a crowd that was “largely families” (translated); these throws are not mentioned by ICI, and the two accounts are not reconciled. At 2:43 p.m., thus before these shots, university students quoted by L’Est Républicain were already denouncing “disproportionate police repression methods” (translated) (tear gas without warning, encirclement): general remarks, with no established link to this scene. At the end of the day, the demonstration disperses and only “the most radical elements” (translated) remain, who confront law enforcement, with firecrackers in rue Saint-Jean and burning bins (ICI), then a “chase and arrest” (translated) in the station area (L’Est Républicain). This end-of-day violence is not described precisely enough to be the subject of an entry.
The Meurthe-et-Moselle prefecture counts 11 arrests on 6 October and three slightly injured people, without locating them; the prefect “firmly condemns the acts of violence committed” (translated) and promises to identify their perpetrators (statement quoted by ICI). No complaint, referral to the IGPN (police internal affairs) or official reaction on the gas shots is reported in the articles read as of 2026-10-07. The coordinates of this entry are those of place Charles-III.