the head of the gendarmerie finds it “astounding” to say that the police have prohibited the rescue services from intervening

An expected speech. After the clashes in Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres, on March 25, the families of two men in a coma after the prohibited anti-“mega-basins” demonstration, filed a complaint, in particular for “attempted murder”, while that the authorities defend the action of the forces of order.

>> Demonstration against the “mega-basin” of Sainte-Soline: four questions that arise around the intervention of relief

The League of Human Rights, accuses the police of having hindered the intervention of relief, Saturday, in Sainte-Soline during a demonstration prohibited against the water reservoirs. In a recording that franceinfo has obtained, we hear a telephone exchange between a doctor, an LDH lawyer and an Samu operator. “We will not send a helicopter or SMUR means on the spot because we have orders not to send any by the police“, assures the latter.

“I find it mind-boggling“to say that the gendarmerie has forbidden the emergency services to intervene in Sainte-Soline to help the wounded, denounced the director general of the national gendarmerie, Christian Rodriguez on franceinfo Thursday, March 30. “To consider that the gendarmes will oppose relief, but it is even more than indecent“, he adds.

“Situation so complicated”

“It is claimed that the gendarmes prevented them from gaining access, I do not have that returnsays Christian Rodriguez. There is an investigation which will make it possible to see more clearly“. That said, for the Director General of the National Gendarmerie “we can have at a given moment a situation which is so complicated (…) that we must prevent the help from going there“.

A speech which comes after some 80 calls for a rally launched throughout France, in support of the injured after the violence in Sainte-Soline, in front of the prefectures in particular. The Ministry of the Interior has asked the prefects to reinforce security in front of these buildings.