one seriously injured protester released from hospital, another still in a coma

Two weeks after coming out of the coma, Mickaël, 34, returned to his home on Thursday. Serge, 32, remains in an “unchanged” state, according to his lawyer.

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An injured person is evacuated by demonstrators on March 25, 2023, in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres).  (JEROME GILLES / NURPHOTO / AFP)

“He was able to go home today.” One of the two demonstrators seriously injured and placed in a coma after the clashes in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) was released from hospital on Thursday, April 13, announced his lawyer and organizers of the banned demonstration against “mega- basins”. On the other hand, the state of the other demonstrator placed in a coma, a 32-year-old man named Serge, remains “unfortunately unchanged”according to lawyer Chloé Chalot.

Aged 34, named Mickaël and from Loir-et-Cher, the demonstrator who was able to return home had been seriously injured in the trachea during clashes on March 25 between the police and activists opposed to artificial water retention. Hospitalized in Poitiers, his vital prognosis had been engaged for a time, before he came out of a coma on March 30. The collective Les Uprisings of the Earth, co-organizer of the demonstration, welcomed, Thursday, a “great and good news”saying to himself “delighted” of this ad “encouraging”.


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