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The police and gendarmes will be able to use the set of intermediate weapons at their disposal, which includes everything from tear gas grenades to the defense ball launcher in a context of extreme difficulty, when the situation tips into urban violence or riots. The French Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, assured this Friday that flashbang grenades, banned in student demonstrations in recent days after an incident in which a teenager lost his hand due to one of them, will indeed be allowed during the various protests called for this Saturday. #ProtestasFrancia #GranadasAturdidoras #DerechosEstudiantiles (translated)

In the midst of the serious protests that have been taking place for days across French territory, with thousands of detainees and hundreds of police officers, teachers, and students injured, Nuñez has insisted that the orders from President Emmanuel Macron are to intervene "whenever there are serious acts of violence, especially urban violence." #ProtestasEstudiantiles #Francia #GranadasAturdidoras (translated)

"I suspend their use during the mobilizations of high school students until what happened in this case is clarified." The French Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, announced this Wednesday the suspension of the use of stun grenades in the context of student protests, in light of the criticism received regarding the response of law enforcement to the demonstrations and the case of a 15-year-old adolescent who lost a hand due to a grenade thrown by police officers in the city of Lens. #ProtestasEstudiantiles #Francia #GranadasAturdidoras (translated)

France has suspended the use of stun grenades following the serious accident of a young man who lost a hand during student protests, in response to criticism regarding the management of the demonstrations by law enforcement. #ProtestasEstudiantiles #Francia #GranadasAturdidoras (translated)