On 30 September 2026, during a blockade at the Lycée de l'Observatoire in Meudon, a high school student named Emmanuel was violently apprehended and placed in custody. Glass fragments were found in his forehead, and the incident has sparked outrage among his family. His parents plan to file a complaint with the IGPN, the National Police Inspection General. Five days later, the family is still in shock. "They dragged him on the ground like an animal," said Lolo, Emmanuel's mother, a 48-year-old nursing assistant. His father, Fernand, 52, who works in the same profession, remains angry since these two days "of hell." "It's barbaric," he said in the family living room in Clamart (92). On 5 October 2026, the teenager, with a bandage on his forehead and a limp, spoke little. But he agreed to testify to raise awareness. "What they did is not normal. We should not normalize such police misconduct, because children can die because of this," said the 16-year-old high school student. Since the incident, he no longer goes to school or plays basketball, does not leave the house, and sleeps in the living room with his mother or younger sister to avoid being alone with his traumatic memories: "When I close my eyes, the images come back in a loop." On 30 September 2026, around 8:30 am, during a blockade at the Lycée de l'Observatoire in Meudon, in the Hauts-de-Seine, Emmanuel was struck and dragged face down on the ground for several meters by police officers on a road covered with glass shards and other debris, as shown in videos obtained by StreetPress. He has stitches on his forehead and left thigh, and according to a medical certificate, a head injury. Foreign bodies were found in his head wound. The student was then placed in custody for 24 hours before being brought before the Nanterre (92) court. He is scheduled to be tried on 9 December 2026, notably for throwing stones at the police. He denies this. The family plans to file a complaint with the National Police Inspection General (IGPN). "It's lunar, they took him to the hospital and then left him at the police station," said their lawyer Youri Krassoulia: "It's an image of the general treatment of high school students who are mobilizing. That is to say, we will impact them, hit them, injure them and then judicialize to criminalize them." The Paris police prefecture was not available for comment at the time of publication. On the arrest videos, filmed by Emmanuel's classmates, a dozen police officers in riot gear, with shields and helmets, surround the teenager who ends up on the ground. Four then three police officers grab him by the feet and arms, his face bloodied, and move him to a police car so that the teenager's stomach rubs against the ground covered with various shards. The students shout: "Let him go!" "Emmanuel!" "He is bleeding, look how he is bleeding!" "There are pieces of glass!" Emmanuel says he joined the blockade, "we were putting up grids without really doing anything," before seeing the police arrive and throw tear gas - visible on the videos. The students then scattered while he was surrounded. "I was hit with a shield on the chest, I fell, they turned me over, pressed my head against the asphalt and gave me kicks, baton blows and then dragged me on the ground..." A police officer told him: "Shut up, you won't do anything, you dirty negro." Emmanuel remembers his great fear: "I was afraid because I couldn't breathe when my head was on the ground. My nose was bleeding. I thought to myself: 'Maybe I'm going to die.' But fortunately, I didn't die."