Europe 1 with AFP 15:32 pm, March 28, 2023

This Tuesday, according to the organizers of the unauthorized demonstration in Sainte-Soline in the Deux-Sèvres, the "vital prognosis is no longer engaged" for one of the two protesters placed in a coma after the violent clashes last Saturday. For the second activist, his condition remains stable.

The "vital prognosis is no longer engaged" for one of the two protesters placed in a coma after the violent clashes Saturday in Sainte-Soline in the Deux-Sèvres, announced Tuesday the organizers of this unauthorized demonstration against water reservoirs for agricultural use. "Regarding M., the person affected by the trachea, his prognosis is no longer engaged, but he is still in a coma," wrote the collective Bassines Non Merci and the environmental movement the Uprisings of the Earth in a statement published Tuesday.

According to a woman presented as the mother of this demonstrator, and questioned Monday in front of the CHU of Poitiers by BFM TV and CNEWS, "Mickaël, 34 years old", was "operated on the brain" after having "blood in the head" caused by the "compression" of "a shot of LBD received in the neck".

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The vital prognosis of the second protester still engaged

Sunday, the prosecutor's office of Niort had reported a first man, a 32-year-old Toulouse, suffering from a head trauma, in a coma. According to the organizers, this man, named "S", "would have received a GM2L grenade at the level of the head" during the clashes that broke out during the demonstration that gathered Saturday between 6,000, according to the authorities, and 30,000 demonstrators, according to the organizers. On Tuesday, his condition remained "stable, despite his coma and vital prognosis still engaged," added the organizers.

The outcome of the demonstration remains unclear at this stage. The organizers evoke up to 200 demonstrators injured, including at least 40 seriously, and the prosecutor's office reports 47 gendarmes injured and seven demonstrators rescued, to which are added people who "presented themselves spontaneously in hospitals of other departments" the following days, without precise count at this stage.