One of the two demonstrators seriously injured and placed in a coma after the clashes on March 25 in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), was released from hospital on Thursday April 13, we learned from his lawyer, Me Chalot, and the organizers of the banned demonstration against the mega-basins.
Aged 34, this demonstrator named Mickaël and originally from Loir-et-Cher had been seriously injured in the trachea during clashes between the police and activists opposed to an artificial water retention. Hospitalized in Poitiers, his vital prognosis had been engaged for a time before he came out of a coma on March 30.
In a press release, the Les Uprisings of the Earth collective, co-organizer of the March 25 demonstration, welcomed "great and good news", saying it was "delighted" with this "encouraging" announcement.
The other seriously injured remains in a coma
On the other hand, the condition of the other demonstrator placed in a coma, a 32-year-old man named Serge, remains "unfortunately unchanged", Me Chalot told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The families of these two injured filed a complaint at the end of March, in particular for "attempted murder".
The Human Rights League slammed "an immoderate and indiscriminate use of force" during the March 25 protest in Sainte-Soline, which drew between 6,000 and 30,000 people. The clashes left 47 injured on the gendarmes' side, according to the prosecution, and 200, including 40 serious, on the demonstrators' side, according to the organizers.
