The lawyer for the high school student with his hand torn off in Lens filed a complaint for “intentional violence resulting in permanent disability” and denounces “war injuries”

The lawyer for Evan, a 15-year-old high school student whose hand was torn off during a blockade at his high school in Lens on October 5, announced the filing of a complaint "for intentional violence resulting in permanent disability" with the filing of a civil claim, Wednesday October 14. “His injuries are similar to war wounds,” he declared during a press conference organized with the Human Rights League. Follow our live stream.

• High schools and universities still blocked, Wednesday morning, the day after the fifth day of high school student mobilization. The establishments concerned are located in particular in Paris, with the Voltaire, Balzac and Hélène-Boucher high schools, the latter blocked by around forty students. “Today there should be a little less than 200 high schools closed, or 4% of the establishments impacted by this movement. This means that 96% of high schools are open, and that in three-quarters of the departments there is no disruption,” commented the Minister of National Education, Edouard Geffray, on BFMTV.

• A call to continue the blockades. The organizers of the movement are not calling for an "act 6" on Thursday, but the High School Students' Union, through its president Ryad Rani, has called for the blockades to continue. “We will always be there, we will be present on the blockades,” he said Tuesday evening. Like several organizations, he called on Saturday October 17 to join the “major demonstration” of the “yellow vests”.

• A meeting with ministers. “Today is a pivotal moment,” declared Pierre Sourzat, president of the organization Les Lycéens!, on franceinfo. The movement meets Thursday afternoon with the Ministers of National Education and Higher Education, Edouard Geffray and Philippe Baptiste. “We will see if they will announce to us, once and for all, concrete things, because so far, we have only had crumbs.”