An activist from the SUD-rail railway union was seriously injured in the eye during the demonstration Thursday in Paris against the pension reform, his union said on Friday, a delegate of which then clarified that the railway worker would have lost the use of his eye.
“
The surgeon told him that he would no longer see with his left eye
,” said Friday evening Christophe Huguet, SUD-rail delegate of the Technicentre South-East Europe, in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, where his colleague works.
"
He had surgery last night and this afternoon we received a message written by him via his family
," said the union representative.
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“
It happened in Paris, at the head of the procession, just before arriving at the Opera.
We think he received a burst of an encirclement grenade but we do not yet know precisely
, ”added Christophe Huguet, himself present in the demonstration.
A little earlier in the day, the union denounced in a press release “
the explosion of police violence
”.
“
We warn the government about its strategy of repression of the social movement in an attempt to silence it
”, is it written.
“
In Paris, several SUD-rail activists suffered completely uncontrolled and uncontrollable police attacks
”, denounces the trade union organization, citing the case of this railway worker and another, “
beaten up
” and who had “
open skull
".
"
This violence in the demonstrations must stop immediately
", claims SUD-rail which calls "
all the railway workers and railway workers to harden the movement, as a sign of protest and solidarity
".
