Mutilations of several students during high school protests have brought the doctrine of maintaining order back into the spotlight. A Senate report on this subject will be presented in the coming days. Facing demands for resignation from left-wing opposition, the Minister of the Interior announced the suspension of the use of loud grenades and extensively justified the actions of law enforcement during his hearing before the legal affairs committee of the National Assembly. The injuries and mutilations of several students during high school protests caused demands for resignation from elected officials from the Insoumis and Communist parties. The minister returned to his expression that the actions of law enforcement were carried out "without restraint" during high school protests, stating that "there was no restraint in the principle of an intervention, however, when there is an intervention, proportionality of the action is applied." He also recalled the figure of 6,629 arrests since the beginning of the movement and the injuries of 761 police officers or gendarmes, 215 students, and 89 teaching staff "for only a few reports from the IGPN." A meeting chaired by Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee to assess the high school mobilization brought together Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, the Minister of the Interior, and his colleague at the Ministry of National Education Édouard Geffray. A few hours later, the Minister of the Interior announced suspending, for the high school movement, the use of the deafening grenade ASSD, which could have caused the loss of a young man's hand in Lens on Monday. This suspension will be effective until "the light is shed on what happened in this case." Ian Brossat, a communist senator from Paris, stated that "there is a direct link between his statements and the tragedy that occurred," and demanded the resignation of Laurent Nuñez. Manuel Bompard, the national coordinator of LFI, stated that "it is time to ban all war weapons from demonstrations, to end police repression and to listen to the legitimate demands of youth." On the PS side, deputy Boris Vallaud announced that his group would submit a bill proposing that, in the face of demonstrations involving minors, law enforcement would no longer be able to use dismembering weapons or "brutal practices." The ecologist senator Guy Benarroche recalled that "the danger of LBDs or grenades is documented since the yellow vest movement." The centrist senator Olivier Bitz, co-rapporteur of the information mission, stated that the suspension of the use of ASSD grenades was "a welcome sign of calming." He observed that law enforcement is facing increasingly violent acts and emphasized that "it is out of the question to expose police officers and gendarmes further by not giving them the means to restore order." Intermediate weapons are intended to "keep aggressors at a distance" and avoid contact with troublemakers. The Minister of the Interior stated that "intermediate weapons are absolutely essential when police officers, gendarmes, have in front of them extreme violence, this allows to keep at distance, to graduate the response." The high school protests have ignited France for several days and are marked by violent images of face-to-face encounters between high school students and law enforcement, using all their available arsenal in front of the blocked schools. Jean-Luc Mélenchon stated that "it must stop. The command must take control of the sadistic cowboys who mutilate our children." Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the former Education Minister, stated that "the government had a doctrine of maintaining order that was too broad and was not effective." Amnesty International has denounced the disproportionate use of force against high school protests and called for "de-escalation." The Minister of the Interior announced the suspension of the use of loudness grenades in high school mobilizations after a 15-year-old protester had his hand pulled off in Lens. The teenager had been in contact with an explosive device from the police. "A strong possibility that it was a loudness grenade," stated the occupant of Place Beauvau. Other students have been injured during this wave of protest. Eden, 14 years old, was injured in the face in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, in the Val-d'Oise, after "being hit in the head by the shot of a tear gas grenade launcher." The police officer responsible for the shot was placed under investigation for "violence by a person in authority followed by permanent mutilation or disability," an offense punishable by 15 years in prison. Shortly before Eden, a 16-year-old was injured in the eye by a LBD shot in Argenteuil, also in the Val-d'Oise. The National Police Inspectorate (IGPN) has been seized of "18 investigations" concerning the maintenance of order and its potential excesses since the beginning of the high school unrest. The maintenance of order is regulated since 2020 by the National Order Maintenance Plan (SNMO), an official document published at the time following the yellow vest movements. This doctrine officially bases itself on several pillars, including the development of information for organizers and protesters, the growing contribution of units outside of mobile force units, and a modernization of summons. The Minister of the Interior assured that "in almost all cases," the intervention of the police was "proportionate" since the beginning of the high school mobilization. The spokesperson of the national police assured that "the police are required to use force in a necessary and proportionate manner." These statements also rely on the fact that in the violence, several agents have been victims while intervening on the blockades of high schools. Sebastian Roché, a research director at CNRS and author of the book The Police Against the Street, stated that "the mutilations are exclusively on the side of the protesters. There is a total asymmetry of equipment in terms of the ability to inflict damage." He also noted that "the order maintenance techniques, it is always the political interpretation that prevails. Our system is like that, because we have a single police chief, it is the Minister of the Interior." In some countries, the method of "de-escalation" is used for crowd management. According to Sebastian Roché, "it is just the opposite of what is done. That is to say that we do not make unnecessary arrests. We only arrest the people who are particularly dangerous or aggressive. We are able to communicate with the groups of high school students who organize the blockades of the schools and the LBD is prohibited." These approaches are found in Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom.