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France suspends stun grenade use after teen loses hand in protests

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France suspended police use of stun grenades at student protests after a 15-year-old lost a hand to a police-fired grenade. The protests, which began in Paris in mid-September over education funding and school conditions, have spread nationwide and into Belgium, where police made at least 139 arrests in Liège. More than 6,500 people, mostly minors, have been arrested in France. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said his policy response would come later this month.

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