A criminal investigation was opened after the complaint filed at the end of March by a 22-year-old man who lost a testicle because, according to him, of an LBD shot during a demonstration in Rennes, several concordant sources said. Thursday, April 6.
“A criminal investigation has been opened following this complaint”filed on March 28, informed the public prosecutor of Rennes Philippe Astruc, specifying that “the orientation of the investigations will be specified following this forensic examination”scheduled for Friday.
The man, living in Laval and training as a welder, was still recovering at the Rennes University Hospital on Thursday. “I was hospitalized from March 23 to 26 and now I have been back in the hospital since April 2. I had a testicle removed, the doctors tried to save it on March 23, the day of my first operation, and in fact it got infected behind and it was necessary to amputate “he told Agence France-Presse, confirming an information you journal West France.
“Scenes of Chaos”
On Thursday, March 23, the demonstration against the pension reform gave rise on the sidelines of the inter-union procession to numerous clashes between young radical activists and the police in the city center of the Breton capital.
“When I saw the CRS in front of me at 7/8 meters, I took a shot from LBD. I immediately felt the pain, and I tried to step back, I went 10 meters and I fell on the “street medics” [secouristes de rue] and I collapsed on the ground”described the protester.
That day, the socialist mayor of Rennes Nathalie Appéré had mentioned in a press release “scenes of chaos (which) follow one another”. “Physical attacks are increasing, the number of injured is increasing every day”had added the chosen one.
According to the Rennes prosecutor, the young man, “dressed entirely in black”has explained “having only ‘shot tear gas’ and warming up near a barricade fire after being sprayed by the water-thrower truck”.