This case concerns Laurent Théron, hit in the right eye by the explosion of a grenade fired by a CRS in Paris during a demonstration against the Labor law.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) opened proceedings on Monday December 4 against France for “act of torture” or “inhuman and degrading treatment” after the injury of a trade unionist, blinded in one eye in 2016 during a demonstration against the labor law.
“After seven years of legal battle, the Laurent Théron affair takes an unprecedented turn with the opening, by the ECHR, of proceedings against the French State”underlined his lawyers, Céline Moreau, Olivier Peter and Lucie Simon.
A procedure after an acquittal in France
The chief brigadier who fired the shot was referred to the Paris Assize Court, which acquitted him on December 14, 2022, “on the grounds that he had carried out an act required by the necessity of self-defense”. Laurent Théron then appealed to the ECHR, invoking Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits torture and inhuman and degrading treatment.
For the Court, “the order [de renvoi] specified that Mr. [le brigadier] and his company were not attacked or surrounded or even really attacked during the disputed events and that he had committed the act in question outside the legal and regulatory framework.. The procedure is expected to take several more months.
