“I’m angry because I don’t understand why I was shot at and I’m sad because I had to lose a testicle when it’s a right to protest. This 22-year-old young man will keep very bad memories of the March 23 demonstration against the pension reform in Rennes. During the violent clashes between the police and demonstrators, he claims to have been hit by a shot from a defense bullet launcher. “When I saw the CRS in front of me 7 or 8 meters away, I took a shot from LBD. I felt the pain straight away, and I tried to step back, I went 10 meters and I fell on the street medics and I collapsed on the ground, ”he told AFP.
Living in Laval and training as a boilermaker-welder, the young man is still recovering at the University Hospital of Rennes. “I was hospitalized from March 23 to 26 and now I have been back in the hospital since April 2. I have 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 said. , confirming information from the log West France.
He claims to have only “shot in the tear gas”
Following his complaint filed on March 28, a criminal investigation was opened. “The orientation of the investigations will be specified following this forensic examination”, scheduled for Friday, said the public prosecutor of Rennes Philippe Astruc.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the young man, “fully dressed in black”, explained “having only ‘shot tear gas’ and warmed up near a barricade fire after being sprayed by the truck water launcher. »