Strasbourg: a teenager seriously injured in the hand by his own firework mortar outside Couffignal high school
Accident. The sources describe this injury as accidental: it is not violence. It is attributed neither to law enforcement nor to protesters and is not included in any of the site’s figures.
On 7 October in Strasbourg, outside Couffignal high school, a teenager has two finger bones torn off by his own mortar, according to a police source; the prefecture speaks of a self-inflicted injury.
Date
7 October 2026
Place
Lycée Couffignal, Strasbourg (67)
Context
Gathering
Legal follow-up
Unknown
What happened
Accident → peopleEstablishedMutilation
According to AFP, which quotes a police source and the Bas-Rhin prefecture, a teenager seriously injures his hand while handling a firework mortar outside the school, “with his own mortar shot” (translated); he has two phalanges torn off according to the police source (RTL, based on AFP) and part of two fingers according to ICI Alsace. He is treated as an “absolute emergency” (translated) for a “serious hand injury” (translated) (prefecture, based on RTL/AFP). No source speaks of an act directed against him. Severity: loss of part of two fingers, according to the police source (RTL, based on AFP) and ICI Alsace; the prefecture speaks of a “serious hand injury” (translated).
Firework mortar · Teenager
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On the morning of Wednesday 7 October 2026, outside the Couffignal high school, in the Meinau district of Strasbourg, on the sidelines of a high-school gathering, a teenager seriously injures his hand: according to AFP, which quotes a police source and the Bas-Rhin prefecture, he was handling a firework mortar and was injured “with his own mortar shot” (translated). The police source speaks of two phalanges torn off (RTL); ICI Alsace, which confirms AFP’s information, writes that he had “part of two fingers torn off” (translated). The prefecture confirms that he was treated as an “absolute emergency” (translated) for a “serious hand injury” (translated).
No source read alleges a deliberate act by a third party: the entry is therefore classed as an accident, with no perpetrator. No later state of health, no inquiry and no complaint are reported in the articles read as of 2026-10-07.