Method

What is covered

The site covers the high-school revolt that began in September 2026 (blockades, demonstrations, gatherings, arrests, police custody) and the events that follow from it. It records two families of violence, as soon as they are documented by at least one verifiable source:

• violence committed by officers of the national police, the gendarmerie or municipal police forces in the course of their duties;
• violence committed by protesters, against officers, passers-by or property.

Violence against people and violence against property are always counted separately, in two distinct sets.

Both families follow exactly the same rules of proof. The “Report” table counts the cases published here; it does not claim to measure all the violence committed in France. A case counts once, with the number of people affected when the sources give it.

Verified cases and unconfirmed reports

A case is verified when its date, its place and its link with the movement are established, and at least two independent sources report it (two news outlets that did their own work, or one news outlet and one authority). The others are published as unconfirmed reports, with the list of what is missing: they are counted separately, hatched, and never mixed with established facts.

Severity

The severity of an injury follows all available information on the person’s condition: the victim themselves, their relatives or their lawyer; for a police officer or a gendarme, the officer themselves or their service, their hierarchy or their union; an authority (public prosecutor’s office, prefecture, town hall) or a medical report; a news outlet, a direct witness or a video showing the injury. The same rules apply to all victims, protesters and law enforcement alike. When sources diverge, the entry keeps the most precise information and states the other version; a rumour, or an account asserting something without having seen it, is not enough. The source is always indicated in the entry, and severity does not change the degree of proof of the fact itself (established, alleged or disputed). The act described also counts: a blow, a slap, a baton strike, being pinned to the ground or tear gas received counts as at least a “minor injury”, and a purely verbal act as “no physical injury”. Severity remains “unknown” only when nothing is known of the effect of the act (a projectile or shot that may have missed its target, an unreadable source).

Severity of damage

Violence against property follows its own scale, the same whoever the perpetrators are, with a single level per incident: destruction (building or vehicle destroyed, or made unusable); major damage (building, vehicle or equipment damaged); minor damage (bin, vegetation, street furniture, personal item damaged); attempt without damage; unknown.

Attempt on life

“Attempt on life” is a severity level, placed between mutilation and serious injury: an attempted homicide or murder reported by the victim, by their relatives or their lawyer, or retained by a public prosecutor’s office. Each incident has only one level, the most serious that applies: an attempted drowning without injury is not filed under “unknown severity”, and a serious injury accompanied by a complaint for attempted homicide is counted only once. The rule is the same for law enforcement and for protesters.

Plainclothes police officers among protesters

The site records separately the cases of plainclothes police officers mingling with protesters, and above all those where they commit or provoke damage or violence. The presence of plainclothes officers is legal; such an act is not, and it distorts the account of what happens in the street. A case is “established” only if an authority confirms that the person is a police officer and the act is described by a source; otherwise it is “alleged”, or “disputed” if it is denied.

Breaches of rules

The site also flags, separately from the violence, breaches by law enforcement of the rules that govern them: absence of the individual identification number (RIO), mandatory under article R434-15 of the French internal security code; witnesses prevented from filming, whereas filming law enforcement in public space is allowed; concealed face, flagged even when a unit is authorised to do so, because it prevents identifying the author of an act; body camera not activated. They follow the same degrees of proof as the violence.

What underpins each entry

• At least one verifiable source: video, press article, official document, court decision or corroborated testimony.
• Facts are reported as the sources establish them. What is not established is presented as such (“according to the testimony of…”).
• The legal follow-up is indicated and updated when known. Anyone implicated is presumed innocent until finally convicted.

What is never published

• The name of a victim without their consent, or that of their family if they have died.
• No photo in which a minor is recognisable, whatever their role: faces are blurred before publication. High-school students are identified by their age and their school, never by name.
• The name, face, address or any element that would identify an officer or a protester implicated, unless it has been made public by a court decision or by the institution itself.
• The location data contained in photos: it is erased before publication.

Corrections and right of reply

An error, a new element, a request for correction, removal or reply: @TraitreBourgeo1 (private messages on X). Each entry carries the date of its last update.