Chaos reigned this Saturday in Deux-Sèvres. And the national secretary of EELV, Marine Tondelier, to denounce to the AFP the firing of grenades towards injured people taken care of on the site of the demonstration against the basins in Sainte-Soline. According to the latest assessment given by the Ministry of the Interior, 24 gendarmes and 7 demonstrators were injured, including 2 very seriously.
“When we arrived, the vehicles had already been burning for about 30 minutes, says the leader of the environmentalist party, present at the scene. We saw that there were wounded, at that time at least ten”. “We formed a cordon, with elected officials in front, scarves clearly visible, in order to protect the area where they were,” she continues.
“There, we saw police on quads. There were loud bangs and impacts on the ground. We don’t know if they were stun grenades or disencirclement, with a lot of tear gas. We found ourselves having to transport the wounded one by one, ”explains the elected official, referring to a woman who had been the victim of a “shot in the head”.