Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
A French police commander in his sixties was chased, knocked down and kicked in the head until he blacked out outside a Belfort high school on Friday morning. Prosecutors have opened an investigation for attempted murder of a public official.
The officer is the local chief of territorial intelligence. He was in plain clothes, trying to arrest a youth suspected of starting a fire.
This is not a scuffle on the edge of a school complaint. It is the second mob hunt of a lone officer in two days, filmed, shared, and dressed up by parts of the press as a student protest about classrooms.
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Several young men repeatedly punch and kick a police officer in the head at a park near the Gustave Courbet School in the eastern French city of Belfort. The officer was knocked unconscious.
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— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) October 2, 2026
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??WARNING – City of Belfort, France?
Horrific
Migrant kids take down a police officer and almost kill him.
“An investigation has been opened for attempted voluntary homicide on a person vested with public authority by Belfort prosecutors” https://t.co/WPLp275xbZ
— Kosher (@koshercockney) October 2, 2026
?#Choc : #Belfort, un commandant de police âgé de 59 ans a été passé à tabac par plusieurs jeunes avant de perdre connaissance.
Une enquête a été ouverte pour « tentative de meurtre sur personne dépositaire de l’autorité publique.#France #Violence #Crise pic.twitter.com/mK9vl1QbpH— Guyane ActuHebdo ? (@GuyaneActu) October 2, 2026
Violence from rioters of African and Arabic origins keeps ramping up today against the police in France. In the video, a murder attempt is carried out on a police officer in Belfort. pic.twitter.com/3KafdNdrOi
— RagingDissidentBackup (@JustRaging02) October 2, 2026
The attack happened at about 9:15 a.m. on Friday, October 2, on the grass near Lycée Gustave-Courbet. Belfort prosecutor Paul-Édouard Lallois said the commander “was set upon by a wild horde of young people who knocked him to the ground and beat him with punches and kicks, particularly to the head.” Most of the attackers had hoods up or faces covered. Reinforcements scattered them. The officer had already lost consciousness.
Lallois called it “a scene of unheard-of violence” and said “we came within two fingers of a tragedy.” Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez wrote that the images were of “a rare violence” and “unbearable,” that the officer had been “deliberately targeted,” and that “everything will be done to identify the authors of this abject act.”
Nuñez added that the commander was hospitalized after losing consciousness, and that his condition “fortunately no longer inspires major concern.” On Saturday, police sources told France Télévisions the first exams were reassuring and the injuries were superficial trauma.
He was treated at Trévenans hospital with bruises and open wounds to the face, and Lallois said he was “particularly shocked, marked by the savagery of the assault,” with “very visible marks of blows on his face.”
The Alliance police union posted the footage with a blunt line: a cop “hunted like prey, caught, thrown to the ground and struck in the face several times, several against one.” The union’s verdict: “This is no longer anti-cop hatred. IT IS A HUNT FOR COPS.“
The commander heads the departmental territorial intelligence service for the Territoire de Belfort. He was not standing in a cordon. He had just tried to arrest a youth suspected of starting a fire on the grass around the school and of throwing a projectile at officers. The prefecture said that youth was carrying a bag containing hydrochloric acid and protective equipment. The youth got away when the pack closed in.
A separate clip of the arrest, shot in a stream beside the school, was then waved around as proof the officer had tried to drown a teenager. Lallois shut that down on Saturday. “It is the individual who deliberately goes into the water” while trying to escape, he said. Both of them fell. “The youth cannot be immersed in the water, there is not enough water to be immersed.” The commander was on his knees in the stream. The suspect was then cuffed on the bank.
?? A police officer ATTEMPT TO DROWN a high school student today in Belfort, France
He can be seen holding the young man’s head underwater for long seconds. pic.twitter.com/Sga3GRLGLg
— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) October 2, 2026
That same suspect is now one of the people investigators want. Lallois said several people have been identified as likely principal authors, and that he was “fairly optimistic” they could be arrested within 24 hours. The youth the commander had handcuffed is “clearly identified as coming to deliver two violent kicks to the head of the police officer,” recognizable on the video by the cuff still on his wrist.
Friday’s beating landed on top of Thursday’s hunt in Paris. A trainee lieutenant with the Paris police prefecture was chased on foot near Avenue Gambetta, in the 20th arrondissement, during a lycée gathering. Voices on the recording call her a “bitch” and scream “Kill her.”
Someone trips her. Others kick her on the ground, including to the head. She filed a complaint. Nuñez called the attack intolerable and said a young trainee lieutenant “was pursued, thrown to the ground and assaulted by several individuals.”
Marine Le Pen wrote: “The image of this young policewoman, pursued by a pack howling its hatred, thrown to the ground and assaulted, is unbearable. These acts deserve exemplary sentences. Let her know that tonight, millions of French people offer her warm support.”
The official story is still that this is a pupil movement about absent teachers, overcrowded rooms and late buses. Education Minister Édouard Geffray said the movement had been “taken hostage by ultra-violent small groups.”
On Thursday alone the Interior Ministry counted 1,949 arrests and 305 injured officers. Geffray said 235 people in the education sector had been hurt, including 65 school staff. About 400 schools were closed on Friday. Nuñez sent the BRAV-M motorcycle units into Paris and said that when police use force on his orders, “they are not facing demonstrators but rioters.”
Footage shows burning classrooms, buses and fire engines set alight, shops looted, and packs going after female officers. The media is adamant that this is not about race or demographics, while those on the receiving end in virtually every single instance are white native French people.
French politician Éric Zemmour urged “This has nothing to do with bad school conditions. Plain and simple. These are ethnic riots and demographics is destiny. Without remigration, this is the fate of all Western European nations.”
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