Overview
- The prime minister announced on Tuesday that secondary-school lessons will be canceled for a week so schools can hold internal consultations and prepare for further government measures.
- A 15-year-old pupil in Lens was seriously wounded after reportedly handling a grenade-like projectile on Monday and is hospitalized in Lille while local authorities investigate the incident.
- Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez defended police actions as proportional, and the national police watchdog has opened inquiries into ten separate protest-related incidents.
- Authorities say about 215 students and 715 police officers have been injured so far and roughly 890 of about 3,700 secondary schools have been wholly or partially closed during weeks of unrest.
- Teachers, university students and unions have joined the marches, officials have promised staffing and maintenance fixes and the government faces political pressure and scrutiny over crowd-control tactics used on minors.