On Tuesday 6 October 2026, for “act III” of the movement, the high-school and union march that set off from place de la République crosses Paris calmly, according to the police prefect and France 2. The situation becomes tense at the end of the march: the police prefecture mentions “300 hostile individuals” (translated) contained as far as place de la Nation, where protesters throw projectiles, stones and roadworks cones; law enforcement respond with tear gas and stun grenades (20 Minutes, based on AFP). Firework mortar and grenade shots can be heard amid the clouds of gas, and law enforcement prevent the rest of the march from reaching the square (same source). Protesters, mostly adults, form a human chain in front of a cordon of CRS.
At a press briefing on place de la Nation, the police prefect says that “the police acted with discernment” (translated) and announces 32 arrests and 14 injured people (franceinfo): one police officer, one firefighter and 12 protesters, including a protester who “fell five metres” (translated) from the statue on place de la République, who reportedly “fell all by himself by putting himself in danger” (translated) and is “very seriously injured” (translated) (20 Minutes): this last case, described by the prefect as a fall with no action by a third party, is not counted here. The prefect explains that “the end of the march is always much more complicated” (translated) because peaceful protesters have gone home (franceinfo).
The gas and grenades fired by law enforcement on the square are described only by these general accounts; L’Humanité reports, in an article of which only the lead could be read, that two volunteers of a civil liberties observatory were hit by a grenade shot at the end of the day: no entry is opened at this stage, for lack of a full reading. No judicial follow-up is reported as of 2026-10-07.