Thousands of grenades, Molotov cocktails, hundreds of wounded: on March 25, 2023, in Sainte-Soline in the Deux-Sèvres, a demonstration against a mega-basin project turned into a confrontation. At least two demonstrators, including Serge Duteuil-Graziani, a 32-year-old activist, are seriously injured. What happened ?
The dozens of hours of videos captured that day and the testimonies collected by the video investigation unit of Le Monde show that the demonstrator, on the front line of the clashes, was probably hit by an illegal tear gas grenade, fired from one of the areas where the gendarmes were positioned. The analyzed images also prove that Serge Duteuil-Graziani was not hit at that time by the projectiles of other demonstrators.
The investigation of Le Monde also reveals, thanks to unpublished images of the journalist of Brut Camille Courcy, another illegal shooting, on another demonstrator. A shot made too horizontally and carried out with the most powerful propulsion device, which hit this demonstrator in the head.
