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Student, 15, has hand blown off by police stun grenade during French mass protests
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2026
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In the comments, it's mentioned that the police claim that he picked up the grenade, but there is an investigation into whether that is the case or it was launched at him directly.
Most of the patients I've had who became upper limb amputees from explosives had a closed hand around the explosive when it happened. You can hold something like a fire cracker in an open palm and walk away with mild burns. However, if you were holding the same firecracker in a closed fist I would be fitting you with a prosthetic in a few weeks.
Now I'm not sure exactly how much energy a stun grenade goes off with, but usually if the limb is irreparably damaged without also causing other bodily trauma, the patient was probably holding the device when it went off.
I can attest that because I blew myself up with a pistol flare in 2025 (long and stupid story). My left hand at the moment of the explosion was half-stretched out and the charge blew up a few centimeters below my hand. Only superficial burns to the hand and permanent hearing damage.
If I had the charge in a closed fist, it would have easily torn a hole through my hand. And that was just 2 grams NEC. A stun grenade is much more powerful than a pistol flare (my completely random guess: 20g NEC equivalent), so I reckon that eviscerating the entire hand is not out of the question.
It doesn't take much depending on the hand position when it goes off. We usually get about 2-3 people blowing up their hands in the trauma ward every year at the hospital during the 4th of July.
Regardless of whether the kid picked up the grenade, the mere fact that the grenade was launched towards kid is already crossing the line. They always try to make the people focus other things. It doesn't even matter to them whether it was shot at him or he picked it up. As long as the focus does not lie on them shooting the thing in the first place.
Some witness says the genade landed directly in his hand
That's a weird way to say he caught it. The first sentence of the article says he picked it up. He doesn't have to be a perfect victim to deserve sympathy or hold the pigs to account.
mmm catching a grenade wouldn't make him any less a victim. They launched a less lethal device close enough to someone for them to catch it, can't really go target blaming.
The article lies, because the police report it quotes lies.
These "protestors" set fire to schools and doused one headmaster in gasoline.
So we have gone from protest to just idiot violence.
Did this child do that, would they deserve losing a limb even if they had?
I read that undercover police did those
this is obviously serious stuff, but here's an argument on why everyone should learn volleyball