By Sumayya
PARIS: France has stopped the use of flash grenades by police at student-led rallies, the interior minister stated Wednesday, as claims of police cruelty grew after days of sometimes rough rallies across the land.
Tens of thousands of populations took to the streets across France on Tuesday demanding better setups in high schools, which pushed President Emmanuel Macron to hold a crisis session with Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and alternate top ministers to spot a path out of the trouble.
Lecornu will make a public speech later Wednesday on the school rallies as well as the land’s money state, his office expressed.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez meanwhile informed radio station RTL early Wednesday that he had stopped the police’s use of flash grenades at the rallies.
A 15-year-old lost a hand on Monday after police shot a flash grenade.
And a 14-year-old student in northwest Paris stood hit in the face with a tear gas bomb at such near range that he lost multiple teeth. A policeman stood charged Tuesday over that event.
Police have opened 18 internal reviews into claims of bad actions since the rallies launched, Nunez expressed.
The rallies started in late September with students blocking entries to hundreds of high schools for 15- to 17-year-olds over worries of broken buildings and teacher shortages.
Parents, teachers and union workers joined the rallies in the capital Paris and alternate cities Tuesday, amid claims of police deploying unfair power.
Short rough clashes have broken out between police and protesters at what otherwise have been mostly peaceful rallies.
Lecornu on Tuesday spoke against the fighting and informed lawmakers the fighting would fail to be allowed, while likewise turning down claims that the state had ordered “police crushing” against protesters.
More than 6,500 populations, mostly children, have been caught.
