Two police officers burn themselves while removing a tear gas grenade from their car on the sidelines of high school blockades

They pulled out a grenade in the passenger compartment of their vehicle. Two police officers were injured this Friday morning in Givors on the sidelines of the high school blockades following poor handling, according to information from Le Progrès confirmed to Le Figaro by several well-informed sources. Aged 28 and 47, one was burned in the thigh, the other in the hand.

However, the situation was rather calm this Friday in the Rhône department after a week marked by blockages and demonstrations by the high school protest movement. The two national police officers were on surveillance in their vehicle in front of the Aragon high school, where mortars had been fired the previous week. In circumstances that remain to be defined, a tear gas grenade was accidentally triggered inside the vehicle.