Live: France suspends stun grenade use in school protests after 15-year-old loses hand

The French government has suspended the police use of stun grenades against protesting high school students, the interior minister announced Wednesday, after a teenager had his hand blown off up to the elbow by one fired by police. Eighteen internal probes have been launched in response to allegations of police brutality since the student movement broke out in mid-September. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments. Police dismantle barricade outside Sciences Po university in Paris French riot police are dismantling a barricade set up by students outside Sciences Po university's Paris campus in solidarity with the nation-wide high school protest movement, footage shared on social media by CLPRESS news agency showed. French PM to speak Wednesday on school protests French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu will make a public address later Wednesday on the nation-wide student demonstrations as well as the country's finances, his office said. President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency meeting with Lecornu and other key ministers on Tuesday after hundreds of thousands of students and their supporters took to the streets to protest teacher shortages and run-down school buildings. France suspends police use of stun grenades at student protests The French government has suspended the use of stun grenades in high school protests, the interior minister announced, after a teenager lost his hand to one fired by police. "I am suspending their use for the high school students' movement" until there was more clarity on what happened, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told radio broadcaster RTL. One policeman has been charged in an incident involving an injured youth, while a further 18 internal police probes have been launched over allegations of brutality during the demonstrations. Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, union workers and parents joined nationwide demonstrations protesting lack of national education funding. The Interior Ministry put the number of demonstrators at 250,000, while organisers estimated that almost twice as many people had joined the protests. Police arrested 488 people during the demonstrations, and the Interior Ministry said 43 members of law enforcement had been injured. A total of 891 high schools out of the 3,700 across France saw their lessons “suspended, either completely or partially, for various reasons”. Around 40 percent of public higher education institutions were also disrupted on Tuesday, the French higher education ministry said.