Does a viral video authentically show a French teacher reacting to students bullying each other by kicking and punching them using Chinese martial arts? No, that's not true: The video was originally put out by Campus Univers Cascades, a French training center for stunt techniques. The video features trained professionals and was recorded and originally shared on social media for entertainment purposes.
However, the video was shared on social media without that context, for example in an X post (archived here) published on April 28, 2025:
🇫🇷 -- Violent Content: A French teacher, fed up with students bullying a classmate, lost his patience and used Chinese martial to intervene and stop the bullying, a video posted on X shows.
The video also appeared on TikTok here (archived here) with a Dutch-language caption that read "Leraar Frans draait door tijdens les" (translated: "French teacher goes ballistic during class") but it was noted in the hashtags there the video was an "act" and "fake":
@magnetwess Vind jij dit normaal, ik ben die jongen in de witte trui. Moet ik aangifte doen? #schorsing #geschorst #acting #act #fake ♬ origineel geluid - Magnetwess Official
The original video actually appeared in this April 22, 2025, Instagram post (archived here), from the verified account of Campus Univers Cascades.
The company describes itself on its website (translated from French to English using Google Translate) as a "professional training center dedicated to stunt techniques in cinema and entertainment," where the goal is "to offer the best possible training around the world supervised by a team of experienced and recognized professional stuntmen in France." Their Instagram account describes it as:
Campus Univers Cascades
🇲🇫 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺
Stuntmen | Fighters | Performers
🔥 Break the limits
🌍 Biggest Stunt School in the World
In 2023 Lead Stories debunked another video from the school that went viral after people didn't realize it was staged.
