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the vital prognosis of one of the protesters in a more committed coma

Protesters clash with riot mobile gendarmes during a demonstration called by the collective
THIBAUD MORITZ / AFP Protesters clash with riot mobile gendarmes during a demonstration called by the collective “Bassines non merci”, the environmental movement “Les Soulevements de la Terre” and the French trade union ‘Confederation paysanne’ to protest against the construction of a new water reserve for agricultural irrigation, in Sainte-Soline, central-western France, on March 25, 2023. – More than 3,000 police officers and gendarmes have been mobilized and 1,500 “activists” are expected to take part in the demonstration, around Sainte-Soline. The new protest against the “bassines”, a symbol of tensions over access to water, is taking place under thight surveillance on March 25, 2023 in the Deux-Sevres department. (Photo by THIBAUD MORITZ / AFP)

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Two demonstrators were placed in a coma after the violence that occurred during the demonstration against the mega-basin project in Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres, on Saturday March 25.

SAINTE SOLINE – The “vital prognosis is no longer engaged” for one of the two demonstrators placed in a coma after the violent clashes on Saturday in Sainte-Soline, the organizers of this unauthorized demonstration announced on Tuesday against water reservoirs for agricultural use.

“Regarding M., the person affected in the trachea, his vital prognosis is no longer engaged, but he is still in a coma”wrote the collective Bassines Non Merci and the environmental movement the Uprisings of the Earth in a press release published on Tuesday.

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“We hope he will come out of the coma quickly and that he will not suffer too serious after-effects”organizers said on Tuesday.

According to a woman presented as the mother of this protester, and questioned Monday in front of the Poitiers University Hospital by BFM TV and CNEWS, “Mickael, 34 years old”been “brain surgery” after I had “blood in the head” caused by the “squeeze” of“a LBD shot received in the neck”. According to Le Parisien, this man would be known to intelligence services, in particular for its participation in the demonstrations of Yellow Vests.

On Sunday, the Niort prosecution had reported a first man, a 32-year-old Toulousain, suffering from head trauma, in a coma. According to the organizers, this man, named “S”, “would have received a GM2L grenade at the level of the head” during the clashes that erupted during the demonstration which gathered Saturday between 6,000, according to the authorities, and 30,000 demonstrators, according to the organizers.

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A protester on file S

On Tuesday, his condition remained “stable, despite his coma and vital prognosis still engaged”, the organizers added. According to information from the Parisian, this man has been on file S since 2017 for his membership in the autonomous anarcho movement.

Accustomed to the demonstrations of Yellow Vests and the ZAD (Zone to defend, editor’s note) of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, he had carried out two months of pre-trial detention for suspicion of participation in the ransacking of the premises of the Judicial Protection of Youth in Labège on July 5, 2011, according to our colleagues.

According to the prosecutor of Niort, the origin of the injuries of the two people in the coma has not been determined, even if it is “ acquired ” that they occurred in a context of demonstration where the maintenance of order was assured ” by the police. The investigations relating to these injuries will therefore be transferred to the Rennes military prosecutor’s office on Tuesday, he adds.

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Up to 200 injured, an investigation opened by the IGGN

The outcome of the event remains unclear at this stage. The organizers mention up to 200 injured demonstrators, including at least 40 seriously, and the prosecution reports 47 wounded gendarmes and seven rescued demonstrators, to which are added people who “presented spontaneously in hospitals in other departments” the following days, without a precise count at this stage.

According to the gendarmerie, two soldiers launching LBDs with quads, a prohibited practice, have been suspended and the IGGN has opened an administrative investigation.

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Written by Emilie Grenaud

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