A Sud-Rail activist “blinded” in demonstration, the union challenges the authorities

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The Sud-Rail activist injured Thursday during the Parisian demonstration against the pension reform was “blinded” by the use of a disencirclement grenade, the union said on Saturday, which is asking the government and the prefect of police to Paris to “be accountable”.

“Sébastien, a SUD-Rail trade unionist, a railway worker in a hardware workshop for more than twenty-five years and father of three children, was blinded by the police”, indicates the union in a press release co-signed with Solidaires, specifying that he “lost his eye to the burst of an encirclement grenade”.

“Disencirclement grenades are listed in the category of war material by the Internal Security Code”, affirm the unions, which evoke the case of a demonstrator whose finger was torn off the same day in Rouen by a grenade and “condemn with the greatest firmness in this disproportionate and illegal violence”.

The two unions, “in connection and support with the family of our activist, will do everything possible to ensure that this act is punished commensurate with its level of violence” and call for mobilization. Asked about the legal follow-up it intended to give to this affair, Sud-Rail indicated that “complaints will be filed”, without further details at this stage.

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