“It was very violent, I saw a policeman breaking his baton in half, he was so hard on the ground. Laurent Bigot films the Paris demonstration against the pension reform on Thursday January 9 around 4pm when clashes break out between demonstrators and the police.
Shortly before Place Saint-Augustin, where the demonstration was dispersed, a cordon of police faced a few dozen people. A policeman takes out his LBD and seems to shoot towards the crowd. A man collapses, several people fall to the ground. "The police continued to push, so I don't know if there were injured people who remained behind them," said the author of the video, who is used to protests against the pension reform.
The Paris public prosecutor's office announced the opening of an investigation by the head of “voluntary violence by a person holding public authority. "
