{"id":5741,"date":"2026-10-07T19:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/france-suspends-stun-grenades-amid-student-protests\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:28:34","slug":"france-suspends-stun-grenades-amid-student-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/france-suspends-stun-grenades-amid-student-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"France Suspends Stun Grenades Amid Student Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FIqsYrLLSHgA%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"France faces &amp;apos;CIVIL WAR&amp;apos; fears as riots RAGE\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IqsYrLLSHgA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> PARIS, France \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) France temporarily suspended the use of police stun grenades during high school demonstrations Wednesday after a 15-year-old boy lost a hand during a confrontation with riot police, as nationwide protests over deteriorating school conditions continued to disrupt education across the country. The decision came amid a wave of student-led demonstrations that have lasted more than two weeks, resulting in thousands of arrests, widespread school disruptions and increasingly contentious confrontations between protesters and police. Students are demanding improvements to public education, including repairs to aging school buildings, additional teachers and better classroom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/france-suspends-stun-grenades-amid-student-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, France \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) France temporarily suspended the use of police stun grenades during high school demonstrations Wednesday after a 15-year-old boy lost a hand during a confrontation with riot police, as nationwide protests over deteriorating school&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5743,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions\/5743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}