A tear gas explodes on the window of young people filming a demonstration in Lyon

The video of the incident, which left no one injured, spread like wildfire on social media. An investigation was opened in Lyon according to Le Parisien after a tear gas that hit Saturday, in the city center, the window of young people who were filming the demonstration against the pension reform.

Filming the demonstration in my apartment and a crs is targeting us with a grenade launcher ????? @PoliceNationale @lemondefr @BFMTV #violencepoliciere #GiletsJaunes #lyon #crs #cgt pic.twitter.com/SLIXS1Q2v8

On the video posted on Twitter by one of the young people whose apartment window was hit, we see a projectile reaching a student filming the overflows that marred the Lyon demonstration.

Faced with controversy, the police speak out

According to the occupants of this accommodation located on the fourth floor of a building in rue de la Barre, after the explosion of the craft, a lot of smoke spread in the apartment. The students, who were in the process of revising their partials, then left the premises to avoid suffocation, but none of them was injured.

... If a shot could accidentally touch the balcony of a building, there was no intention of reaching it. No one was injured. (2/2)

The young people filed a complaint after this incident and an investigation was opened, according to the Parisian , to shed light on the circumstances of this shooting, strongly criticized since Saturday on social networks. In response to the controversy and to the students, convinced of having been deliberately targeted by a member of the police, the Rhône national police assured this Sunday on their Twitter account that "if a shot could accidentally touch the balcony of a building, there was no desire to reach it ”.

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• Lyon
• Violence
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• Pension reform
• Police
• Mobilization