“You’re crazy, there’s a one-year-old baby!” : an infant hospitalized after a mortar shot during a high school blockade in Yvelines

Fear gripped the parents of an infant on Tuesday, on the sidelines of high school demonstrations, in Saint-Cyr-l'École in Yvelines. As the couple left their home with their one-year-old baby in his stroller, a mortar was fired at ground level and thrown in their direction. “You are crazy, there is a one-year-old baby!”, the father immediately reacted to the young people in front of him, indicates a police source in Le Figaro, confirming information from RMC. Victim of tinnitus due to the noise of the explosion, the child was taken to hospital. According to initial information, he has no other injuries.

The group that fired the fireworks quickly dispersed but the baby's father was able to provide a precise description of the young people to the police. There were around ten of them, according to him, all hooded. Two girls were part of the gang. One wore a white scarf, the other a green top. The latter could be the one who lit the explosive device.

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Hood and physiological serum

To complete these elements, the police rely on a video of the scene filmed by another young person present at the time of the events. In the images, the teenager with a masked face clearly appears, dressed in a green jacket, black striped jogging pants and white sneakers. We see her fleeing “opposite the mortar still lit on the ground”, specifies our source.

The police then set off into the streets of Saint-Cyr-l’École to find the group, and in particular this young girl in the green jacket. As they pass in front of a crowd of people, two young people suddenly run away. One of the two matches the description of the girl sought. The police caught up with her a few meters further and arrested her. This is a 16-year-old girl. In his belongings, they found a hood and physiological serum. She was placed in police custody for “violence with use or threat of a weapon followed by incapacity not exceeding eight days”.