“There is still a person between life and death”, underlines the movement The Uprisings of the Earth. The families of the two injured have filed a complaint.
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Un of the two demonstrators seriously injured on Saturday during the prohibited demonstration against mega-basins in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) came out of a coma, a spokesperson for the Les Uprisings of the Earth movement in Paris announced on Thursday. “There is still one person between life and death, Serge. And a second person […] who just woke up. We are here to hope that he recovers after days in a coma, ”said this spokesperson for the Les Uprisings of the Earth movement, Benoît Feuillu, alongside political representatives (EELV, PCF, NPA) and environmental associations.
READ ALSOSainte-Soline: who is Layla Staats, the Native American alibi of activistsThe families of the two injured demonstrators, Mickaël and Serge, aged 34 and 32, filed a complaint, in particular for “attempted murder”. Benoît Feuillu spoke just before a gathering of a few hundred people in front of the Paris city hall, at the call of his movement. Rallies were thus convened in front of the prefectures throughout the country, “against repression in Sainte-Soline” and “police violence” in the demonstrations against the pension reform.
Darmanin wants to dissolve the movement
Defender of Rights Claire Hédon took up the case of the two demonstrators seriously injured on Saturday during the violent clashes in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), the independent institution announced to Agence France-Presse on Thursday. . The institution explains that it was seized “in view of the seriousness of the injuries caused, possibly by weapons of intermediate strength, in a context of demonstrations”.
“We’re not going to stop […], we will not allow ourselves to be dissolved! said the spokesman, two days after Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin initiated proceedings to dissolve the Earth Uprisings, which he holds responsible for the clashes on Saturday in Sainte-Soline.
READ ALSOEarth uprisings: a legally complicated dissolution “We are shocked, bruised by police brutality,” he continued, calling for the resignation of the Minister of the Interior. Minister of the Interior who had asked the prefects on Wednesday to strengthen security around the prefectures in the face of “threats from the ultra-left”. Orders have been issued by several prefectures to ban demonstrations in Lyon, Strasbourg, Brest, Besançon, Albi, Castres and Vesoul, according to the Ministry of the Interior.