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Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets across France on Tuesday, including in the capital Paris France has suspended the use of stun grenades for policing student protests that have swept the country, after a 15-year-old's hand was blown off earlier this week.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said he had requested the pause until the facts of Monday's incident in Lens had been "clarified", with conflicting accounts offered by protesters and officials. The disruption continued on Wednesday with more than 500 schools fully or partially shut.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has defended the police response, after several groups complained of police using disproportionate force towards teenagers. In an address to the nation on Wednesday evening, he denied security forces had "orders to confront" the young people.
He said the government would look into the demands made by students and promised they would present a set of proposals at the end of October, ranging from renovating buildings to make more teachers available. He gave no further details.
The "anger of young people does not come from nowhere," he said. Education Minister Édouard Geffray said 24 schools had been "set alight or vandalised" to such an extent that they would be shut for several weeks, affecting 30,000 pupils.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets on Tuesday to call for better school conditions and in some cities tear gas and water cannon were deployed. The interior ministry said 488 people were arrested and 43 members of the security forces were hurt.
Nuñez told French radio RTL that police watchdog IGPN had opened 18 investigations to determine whether officers had been "proportionate" during the demonstrations, which have spread from high school pupils to their parents, university students and unions.
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"There is a police action that raises questions for all of us within the Ministry of the Interior; it's what happened in Lens," he said as he confirmed the suspension of stun grenades, weapons which are considered non-lethal and send out small rubber pellets when they detonate.
The 15-year-old boy's hand was torn off after a so-called anti-encirclement grenade was fired in unclear circumstances near the Auguste Béhal high school in the northern city near Lille.
Authorities have s aid he picked up the grenade which then exploded, but students have alleged he was hit directly after an officer fired. According to the local prefect, police had been confronted by more than 200 students throwing stones and fireworks.
The national secretary of policing union UNSA said he was sceptical about the move, saying it had been based "on emotion".
"We are dealing with increasingly violent people," Jean-Paul Nascimento told FranceInfo, cautioning that without the weapon to disperse crowds there may be more clashes at close quarters. "That's where there will perhaps be even more injuries," he warned.
Protests were largely peaceful on Wednesday, but tensions flared near Paris's Sciences Po university as officers used tear gas and pushed protesters back along a barricaded street
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