This Friday, October 2, a police officer was beaten during high school protests in Belfort, a town in the Territoire de Belfort region of France. In addition to the video of the officer's lynching, other videos have surfaced online, showing the arrest of a young man in handcuffs, with circumstances that raise questions. The prosecutor of the Republic has addressed the context of the police officer's arrest, which preceded the attack. Two different accounts are emerging: one from high school students and social media users, who claim the officer attempted to "drown" the young man, and the other from the police officer himself, as supported by the prosecutor. On social media, users have shared video clips that appear to show events before the arrest of a young man near the Gustave Courbet High School in Belfort, where a single police officer in civilian clothes was involved. One of the clips, lasting three seconds, shows a man standing with his feet in the Savoureuse, a stream that runs through the area. Another person is seen kneeling in the water, though only from behind. The head of the person on their knees appears to touch the water. For many online users, this suggests the police officer intended to "drown" the student. One of the students interviewed on site explained, "There was a high-ranking police officer who took a student, followed him into the river, and then placed him in the river, handcuffed. That's why other students came to help the first high school student." Another student lamented, "The media like to show the bad things, but not the whole sequence. They wanted to arrest him because there was a mortar shot, but it wasn't the young man who shot the mortar." Prosecutor Paul-Edouard Lallois of the Republic in Belfort acknowledges that the video excerpts precede the lynching but disputes the claims that the officer wanted to drown the student. He notes that the original video is about ten seconds long and that the editing on social media does not show the full context. According to the prosecutor, the police officer wanted to isolate the young man away from the crowd and took him to the stream. The officer made the student kneel and handcuff him, then lifted him up and crossed the stream to return to the crowd. It was at this point that the officer was attacked. The prosecutor firmly denies the claim that the officer intended to drown the student, stating that the officer's account aligns with the video. He explains that both the officer and the student were in the water, but the officer quickly lifted the student up. The student was seen walking with the officer until the attackers intervened. Regarding the arrest in a wet environment, the prosecutor mentions the urgency of the situation and the danger of conducting an arrest alone, without nearby support and with limited equipment. He also warns about the "images shared on social networks" and urges the young man who fled after the attack to come forward with his account of the events.