Last Saturday, activists tried to occupy an agricultural basin in Sainte-Soline to denounce the privatization of water. Violent clashes with police left 200 people injured, 40 of them seriously.
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A 30-year-old man who took part in Saturday’s environmental protest in Sainte-Soline, west-central France, against agricultural dams is in critical condition and is torn between life and deathas reported by the Poitiers prosecutor’s office.
The man has a head injury as a result of a strong blow while two other demonstrators were treated with absolute urgency: a 19-year-old woman with facial trauma and a 27-year-old man with a broken foot.
In addition, a total of 29 gendarmes were injured, including 2 who are in absolute emergency without their lives being in danger, according to the balance of the prosecutor’s office, still “for now”. Two journalists have also been hospitalized with a relative emergency, according to the BFMTV network.
Prosecutor Julien Wattebled has announced a research “to establish the exact nature” of the serious injuries of a total of three protesters and “the circumstances under which” these people were injured.
200 injured, 40 seriously
The organisers, Land Uprisings, have assured that there are 200 injured protesters, 40 of them seriously, as a result of the violent clashes with police.
The demonstration was unauthorized and It brought together some 6,000 people, according to authorities, 30,000 according to organizers. The activists wanted to occupy the agricultural reservoir to denounce this practice, which they say involves the privatization of a public resource such as water.
The government described the incidents as “wave of unbearable violence” for which he blames the protesters, but the organizers attribute responsibility for the clashes to the police.
This incident adds to the episodes of violence during the recent anti-pension reform demonstrations, with serious disturbances and more than 400 detainees in the capital Paris, last Thursday. Human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International have denounced the “excessive use of force”.
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Source: EITB
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