One of the two protesters seriously injured on Saturday during the prohibited demonstration against the mega basins To Sainte Soline (Two Sevres) came out of a coma, a spokesperson for the Les Uprisings of the Earth movement in Paris announced on Thursday.
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 of the whole country – in particular in Niort, Rennes, Nantes, Lyon, Dijon or even Lille and Strasbourg – “against repression in Sainte-Soline” and “police violence” in the demonstrations against pension reform.
“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 Benoît Feuillu, alongside political representatives (EELV, PCF, NPA) and environmental associations.
Complaints for “attempted murder”
The families of the two injured demonstrators, Mickaël and Serge, aged 34 and 32, filed a complaint including for “attempted murder”. “We are not going to stop (…), we will not allow ourselves to be dissolved! “, said Benoît Feuillu, two days after the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin initiated a procedure to dissolve the “Earth Uprisings”, which he holds responsible for the clashes on Saturday in Sainte-Soline.
Three hundred personalities, including the actor Mathieu Amalricthe novelist Annie Ernaux or the actress Adele Haenel signed a forum in The world, published this Thursday and titled We are the Earth Uprisingsto publicize their membership in this movement.
The Minister of the Interior had asked the prefects on Wednesday to strengthen security around the prefectures in the face of “threats from the ultra-left” and orders were issued by several prefectures to ban demonstrations.
New Gatherings
Various gatherings took place peacefully: 300 people in front of the prefecture of Rennes and that of Dijon according to AFP estimates, 400 in Lyon, a few hundred in Strasbourg, and a thousand in Nantes, where the situation degenerated around 21 hours, with the first jets of projectiles from the demonstrators towards the police who responded with tear gas.
A Niortmore than 400 people gathered without incident in front of the prefecture of Two Sevres, including members of the Bassines Non Merci collective, co-organizers of Saturday’s demonstration, noted an AFP correspondent. More than fifty fragments of grenades collected at Sainte Soline were deposited and 200 candles were to be lit at nightfall. nuit to symbolize the 200 injuries recorded by the organizers.
“We will never forget what Darmanin did! “Launched the spokesperson for Bassines Non Merci, Julien Le Guet, to the crowd, responding:” We do not forget “, “We do not forgive”, “Resistance”, “Assassins” or “Dubée resignation », from the name of the prefect Emmanuelle Dubée.
