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People chant slogans as they protest against the police in Hong Kong on November 11, 2019. REUTERS / Thomas Peter

The day of Monday, November 11 was marked by violence in Honk Kong. A protester was shot by a police officer and a man was turned into a human torch. A new call for a strike was launched on Monday, November 11, and groups of young demonstrators disrupted traffic and public transport.

The face-to-face was held between residents, some demonstrators and the police on Monday morning in Sai Wan Ho, east of Hong Kong Island. An hour and a half earlier, a policeman who was trying to block the traffic jam shot three bullets at two young protesters. One was hit in the leg, and the other in the stomach, liver and kidney, reports our correspondent in Hong Kong, Simon Leplatre .

On one of the videos of the scene, we see a young man dressed in black who tried to prevent the arrest of a comrade and collapses on the spot. He was not armed. The weekend was again tense after the death of a young man Friday.

A man turned into a human torch

A masked man sprayed another man with a flammable liquid, before turning it into a human torch in a particularly violent scene that, picked up by phones, quickly spread on social networks. Police accused a protester of being responsible for this attack. She also accuses " rioters " of various other acts of violence, such as throwing a Molotov cocktail into a train.

For their part, many protesters have also denounced excessive use of force by the police.

For many Hong Kong, police abuse force

Ms. Leung, in her forties, came out to support the protesters: " I am very angry, they did not need to use live ammunition to shoot at youth, at an unarmed protester. It seems that they now have orders to use live ammunition. Now they are threatening people with their guns everywhere. For us, it's like a June 4th slaughter in slow motion. "

The massacre of 4 June was on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989 . The reference is strong, but it illustrates the feeling of many Hong Kong people who are worried about their autonomous territory becoming a bit more like a simple Chinese city every day.

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