The protester, named Mickaël, was placed in a coma after being seriously injured in the trachea during clashes on March 25 in Sainte-Soline.
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Iat the end of a long ordeal. One of the two demonstrators seriously injured and placed in a coma after the clashes at the end of March in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) was released from hospital on Thursday, we learned from his lawyer and the organizers of the Prohibited demonstration against mega-basins.
“He was able to go home today” (Thursday), said Me Chloe Chalot. Aged 34, this demonstrator, named Mickaël and from Loir-et-Cher, had been seriously injured in the trachea during clashes on March 25 between the police and activists opposed to a detention of artificial water.
Hospitalized in Poitiers, his vital prognosis had been engaged for a time, before he came out of a coma on March 30.
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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.
On the other hand, the state of the other demonstrator placed in a coma, a 32-year-old man named Serge, remains “unfortunately unchanged”, specified Me Chloe Chalot. The families of these two injured filed a complaint at the end of March, in particular for “attempted murder”.
The League for Human Rights (LDH) castigated “an immoderate and indiscriminate use of force” during the March 25 demonstration in Sainte-Soline, which drew between 6,000 and 30,000 people. The clashes left 47 injured on the side of the gendarmes, according to the prosecution, and 200, including 40 serious, on the side of the demonstrators, according to the organizers.