Twenty high school students demonstrate in Lyon, six arrests

Illustration of a police armband.

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The rally, described as "illegal" by the Lyon police, resulted in the arrest of six high school students.

Responding to a national movement, twenty students, educated at the Saint-Exupéry high school in Lyon, gathered on the morning of November 5 in front of the establishment to denounce the health protocol put in place.

A protocol deemed "insufficient" in the context of the fight against the coronavirus.

They piled up gates and barriers at the entrance to the establishment before the headmaster called the BAC, the anti-crime brigade.

The Sûreté du Rhône said on Monday that it had made six arrests of high school students, who had insulted them or who had thrown projectiles at them.

Among which, a 15-year-old girl, caught tagging the walls of the school.

Slapped

“The intervention is done very violently.

This repression traumatized the students, ”denounces in a statement a spokesperson for the student movement explaining that those arrested were“ seated on the ground ”,“ handcuffed ”or“ slapped ”for some.

"One of the students was banged his head against the walls several times by the police," he said.

Placed in police custody, the high schools recognized the facts of contempt and violence with which they were accused, indicates the Sûreté du Rhône.

They were presented to the public prosecutor's office the next day for an indictment and then left free with the opening of a judicial investigation.

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