He was 15.

However, regional newspaper La Voix Du Nord quoted a girl, who was reportedly standing near the teenager, as saying he did not pick up the grenade.

"He didn't pick it up. I was there, I saw it. He didn't pick it up, he didn't catch it," she was quoted as saying.

And

Last week, Eden, 14, was badly hurt in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône after reportedly being struck in the head by a tear gas grenade.

The student suffered "a double jaw fracture" and had to undergo "extremely major surgery", according to his lawyer. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has announced an investigation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9zrdmxp4vy6o

Here in Bordeaux they just started gassing the legal movement super heavily, it was 100% peaceful (no shooting stuff or burning or even firecrackers) was moving for only 5 minutes (this is regular stuff, happens often). Old people, handicapped people, parents with strollers. My friend went to them (the riot police) and asked why they started to gas everyone and could they please let them (him) help people out (you get respiratory problems when you're gassed, and people get disoriented, scared etc, people was on the floor, panicked), he got gassed.

So this seems to be a biig "blunder", I mean if they don't just not give a fuck, which they don't. They don't listen? Well then it's french riot time I guess.

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Vive la Révolution

🤣🤣🤣 yeah, sure, bro, sure. Bismillah c'est les ténèbres.

They are, downvoters here seem to have no idea what's going on.

This isn't "fighting back", is people seem to be believe. These are violent thugs using the protests to destroy and loot whatever they can.

The actual protesters are barely being covered by the media, only these violent "protestors". It's detrimental to the cause and will only end up helping the right.

Lock all these fucking criminals up

Good

I'm a do-nothin' lil bitch and I'm smug about it

We get it, Vlad.

I think they tried, but they failed to disable the criminal's vehicles with what they had on hand.

Same. Go out and vote and get ready for violence from the fascist dipshits.

Perhaps that's exactly what it would take for some people to snap out of it.

Americans prioritize the flow of treats over any action that might hurt the oligarchy. Even if a warehouse was burned down by an organized revolutionary militia that was actively trying to bring about change, y’all would complain that you can’t get your 10-ply toilet paper.

Ukraine needs to cloud burst a few more yandex data centers

If instead the person had jumped on the stun grenade to protect others, would you still have a problem with people saying "a cop blew out a students stomach" not be accurate enough for you?

Theyre functionally the same thing. The cop is the reason why the student is now maimed. Saying that's inaccurate only makes you look like you're defending their actions, and are instead blaming the victim.

Most protests was people walking, being happy, singing and talking.
What everyone is talking i that 10% shit happening.

Please, be aware that most of the time people are peaceful. That what everyone have to stick in their brain.

Protest has always been the peaceful option. And governments somehow think it ends at the peaceful option.

Welp.

Pinochet like it

people hate outside cats (more to the point, their owners) on lemmy.

i mean i get it, but if everyone kept their cats inside my bike rides would be so boring. i meet new cats every day. it's one of the better parts.

Thats how change is made

Suppose a cop tripped over a students water bottle, hit his head on the ground and died. Did the student murder that cop?

Describing the occurrence as a cop blowing a students hand off is absolutely hyperbole. Are you really going to pretend that's an objective description of what happened?

Sure, if the student intended to harm the cop, and slipped it directly under his foot when he went to step. That would be a fair equivalent, and I would say yeah, the student is in the wrong.

You can't throw something intended to harm others, and then cry fowl. The cop is the reason that students hand is gone. No clue why you would say otherwise, except tovictim blame.

I used to look up to France for their ability to come together and rebel again against the unjust.

Can someone tell me what they’re doing over there?

I used to look up to France for their ability to come together and rebel against the unjust. Can someone tell me what they’re doing over there?

Go fuck yourself, those would be good people dying

Not putting up with bullshit, that’s what they’re doing.

Good people dying for a good cause. The US is catatonicly lumbering towards self destruction. One death won’t snap anyone out of it. Alex Pretti proved that. It’ll take hundreds of people slaughtered for the people to wake up. If the government doesn’t bury it like China does with Tiananmen Square.

if the student intended

Its interesting you consider the students intention.

What do you suppose was the cop's intention?

Yup, agreed, same French cops that:

• Count their self-inflicted injuries as injuries inflicted by their "suspect" (target).
• Don't follow most laws and rules about weapon usage, about arrest procedure, about state neutrality, about non-discrimination, rape, etc
• Cover their violent colleagues up.
• Threaten a young driver (of color, of course) with "I will blow your head off", while pointing their gun directly to the target's head. Then, when the target drives away to flee, the cop successfully shoots to kill. The whole police institution defend the murderer citing a recent law that in effect extend the legitimate cases for the use of (lethal) force by police to "suspect" that would "probably" harm others while fleeing. (preventive defensive violence... reminds me of something). Some people even donated moreqthan a million euros to said cop to pay for his legal proceedings. The murder was filmed, and the video shared day one, disproving the police lies about the murder from the start.
• Confiscate protests signs that don't please them enough.
• Consider police violence and abuses as insignificant, always justified and proportionnate, then treat graffitis and stickers from protesters as violent crimes.
• Sometimes beat up random people carrying palestinian flags in protests.
• Throw projectiles (I guess grenades, from the impact sound) from behind the protester lines, probably to trigger their colleagues charge. (And deny doing so when they're caught red-handed by an elected official.)
• Are fully armored in protests, get collectively knocked down with some serious injuries by their weapon mishandling, but still use these weapons on civilians in plain clothes, directly aiming at them.
• etc

Our (french) police intitutions are authoritarian, lethally violent, lying. Our ministers too, since they publicly defend and encourage these intitutions crimes.

Multiple attempts were filmed. At least one attempt by the "anti felony brigade" ("Brigade Anti Criminelle", or "BAC")

Coming together and rebelling against the unjust.

To boil it down, billionaires stealing all the money.

The irony: a contributing factor to both E. Macron elections was his stated posture as a shield against far-right. (M. Le Pen was his second round opponent in both elections.)

By looting?

Indeed. Unfortunately if the keyboard revolutionaries of Lemmy think that the lumpenproletariat looting Fnac is going to bring about the Glorious Revolution and not instead usher Le Pen into power, they are as deluded as they are biddable, lapdogs of Putin that they are.

Despite everyone saying they want to die on the internet they don’t actually want to die, hope this helps

Criminal gangs do tend to take advantage of these situations and use it as cover. Same thing happened during the London riots.

I think in the US you would see this if people felt like they were choosing between dying and dying. If it was die in a riot or starve to death or die of exposure for example. Right now it’s suicide by cop or pretend everything is fine. I think if the US didn’t have insane violent thugs in surplus military gear driving armored vehicles as law enforcement you would see a lot more “action”. The math just doesn’t add up if you know acting this way will likely end up with you dying.

In France one of the only groups, maybe the only? not allowed to unionize is the police

This is always a disingenuous argument against protesting. There will always be opportunistic criminals that take advantage of these situations. It’s doesn’t take away the fact that protest and a national strike are the only actual power people have against the ruling class.

I’m not worried about Walmart losing money on looted TVs when cooperations are part of the problem and are run by the ruling class. If it’s a small business, hope your shits insured.

Like the Police, a few "bad apples" will show themselves but, this is people protesting that schools and education in France are underfunded, dilapidated and children do not have materials to learn while they are in cold, drafty classrooms with leaking roofs. I see an increase in funding for schools and education in France's very near future. There is a a good reason why the retirement age in France was not raised even after the government announced that the age of retirement / pension entitlement would be raised. Anyone calling this rioting is a class traitor or a shill.

there aren't quite enough politically motivated suicidal people for that to happen yet

One of those is proven to be safe and the other is not

Lmao Nah, at this point they're just wrecking shit for the fun of it

Of course it is. And per usual they know about fuck all what's actually going on

Please tone your condescendence down.

Those responsibles for MLP (and her kind) rise to power are not their opponents. The main responsible are themselves, their allies, and their goons/hench•wo•men.

The narrative about the protesters being responsible ignore the decades-long events chronology, the contribution of these big companies to our suffering, the proganda aganist the protesters even when unsupported by facts, etc. It is a blame shifting narrative.

Not the police, as it is one the most unionized group of public servant workers in France, the biggest police union is called alliance, which is considered to be affiliated with the far right, and their spokespersons go bitching on tv like little crybabies every chance they get.
The only group not allowed to unionized in France is historically military personnel, so maybe you're thinking of the gendarmerie who are military and not cops even if most of what they do is cop things.

That’s daytime protests

look at the amazing no kings protests in the US where people danced and sang their way into a dictatorship.

Threaten capital.

The only problem that most often it is the smaller stores that get looted because they can not afford the security measures of the large coorporations.

Yeah. It's not like people don't remember what happened in Kent State or the Coal mine protest. You can say all you want about the second amendment until you learn the concept of superior firepower.