The most seriously injured protester on March 25 during the demonstration in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) is recovering in a rehabilitation center, after spending several weeks in a coma with vital prognosis, according to a press release confirmed on Monday June 19 by his lawyer.
“After a month in an artificial coma and six weeks in intensive care, I was transferred to a neurosurgery department, then to a rehabilitation center. At the moment, I feel enormous progress in my ability to move, eat and quite simply exchange and reflect, “wrote Serge Duteuil-Graziani in a press release published on a support blog on Saturday and authenticated Monday with the Agence France-Presse by his lawyer, Me Chloé Chalot.
“The road will be extremely long but I am determined to give everything (…) because I think that refusing to abdicate, refusing to be crushed by the repressive machine is a political necessity”, adds this thirty-year-old from Toulouse.
Another protester released from a coma
On March 25, during violent clashes between demonstrators and security forces during a rally against a disputed water reservoir, he was seriously injured in the head by a grenade, “probably fired by a gendarme equipped with a cougar grenade launcher,” he said. In his press release, this protester thanks all the people who treated him and considers “the cops” as “the minions of the bourgeoisie whose interests they protect and ensure, until now, the sustainability”.
The Rennes military prosecutor’s office is in charge of the investigation which must emerge on the action of the gendarmes responsible for maintaining order around the Sainte-Soline mega-basin.
Another seriously injured protester, Mickaël, then 34, left hospital in mid-April after coming out of a coma. According to his family, he was hit by a defensive bullet launcher (LBD) in the trachea during the violence, which, according to the organizers, injured 200 demonstrators.
