On February 11, 2025, members of Raised Fist, a far-left, anti-fascist student group, and members of the Union Nationale Interuniversitaire (UNI), a right-wing student group, clashed at University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès’ Mirail campus. At least three students were injured.

Early in the morning, as UNI members were distributing flyers related to the upcoming university elections in front of the university’s metro station, a group of students affiliated with Raised Fist began shouting at them and attempted to forcibly take the flyers. Police responded to the altercation and secured the area; UNI members remained and continued distributing flyers. Nearly an hour later, another brawl broke out. A video posted on social media shows a group of about twenty individuals, some hooded, shoving the UNI students back inside the campus’ metro station.

Both members of UNI and Raised Fists claimed that the other group was responsible for the violence.

Scholars at Risk is concerned about violent attacks by students against other students. Scholars at Risk calls on all parties to exercise restraint and to avoid violence. State authorities have the right and obligation to maintain order, which they must with due regard for the rights of protesters and others, including the rights to free expression, academic freedom, peaceful assembly, and due process.

Sources:
*SAR identified this incident in data made publicly available by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)
https://www.ladepeche.fr/2025/02/11/nos-militants-ont-ete-agresses-a-toulouse-une-bagarre-ultra-violente-eclate-entre-les-militants-de-luni-et-des-antifascistes-12505485.php
https://actu.fr/occitanie/toulouse_31555/video-violente-rixe-pres-d-une-universite-de-toulouse-des-etudiants-agresses-ce-qu-il-s-est-passe_62238758.html
https://www.ladepeche.fr/2025/02/12/je-cache-certaines-de-mes-idees-politiques-a-toulouse-luniversite-jean-jaures-est-elle-une-zone-de-non-droite-12508352.php