With schools closed Saturday, retrospectives traced the revolt from Créteil on 17 September to over 1,000 establishments mobilised. Tallies dominated the morning: over 5,000 arrests since Monday, including 800 in Île-de-France 85% minors, damage estimated at several million euros. Attention turned to injuries and policing of minors after reports a 16-year-old in Tours lost use of his right eye to an LBD shot, alleged violence in Nanterre, a beaten plainclothes officer in Belfort and a 15-year-old arrested in Marseille.
Politically the day narrowed to instrumentalisation: a police intelligence note blaming the far left, government accusations LFI orchestrated blockades, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon urging parents to wear white armbands to protect demonstrators ahead of 6 October, as the government advanced its casseur-payeur bill.
Away from schools, editors followed Lecornu’s 2027 budget facing market defiance and Le Pen maintaining confidence in Bardella over antisemitism claims.