Student protest at Gaston-Bachelard high school in Chelles
Chelles, Île-de-France, France · since Nov 10, 2026
Is it still on?
YESDay 2 and counting, since Nov 10.
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The Tea in three lines
- Why they are protesting
- Students are participating in a movement across French high schools that has been ongoing since the return from the Toussaint holidays.
- What they want
- The specific demands of the student movement are not stated in the provided sources.
- What changed
- Nov 10: An elected official was struck by a bottle of gasoline while attempting mediation at the Gaston-Bachelard high school.
Both sides
What protesters want
Demands not stated in the sources.
What authorities say
The Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, condemned the incident as 'urban violence' requiring a firm response. The Minister of National Education, Édouard Geffray, described the act as a crime. The Meaux public prosecutor has opened an investigation for attempted voluntary homicide.12
The numbers
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The full story
A student protest at the Gaston-Bachelard high school in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, escalated on November 10, 2026. An elected regional councillor and deputy mayor of Chelles, Angela Pascoa Dos Santos, was struck in the torso by a bottle of gasoline while attempting to mediate with students to facilitate the resumption of classes. According to the Meaux public prosecutor, the official was knocked to the ground by the impact. Three students aged 15 to 17 were detained at the scene, though the individual responsible for throwing the bottle remains unidentified. The incident has been classified as an attempted voluntary homicide by the prosecutor. Government officials, including the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of National Education, condemned the act as urban violence rather than a student movement.
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