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Protester fighting for life after France clashes: prosecutor
A protester with trauma to the head was fighting for his life on Sunday following clashes with police during a demonstration over water storage facilities in France.
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A French gendarme vehicle burns during clashes as part of a demonstration to protest against the construction of a new water reserve for agricultural irrigation in Sainte-Soline, France, on March 25, 2023. (AFP/Pascal Lachenaud)
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protester with trauma to the head was fighting for his life on Sunday following clashes with police during a demonstration over water storage facilities in France, a prosecutor said.
The 30-year-old man was among three protesters admitted for emergency treatment after the protest in the southwestern village of Sainte-Soline Saturday, prosecutor Julien Wattebled said.
The other two were a 19-year-old woman with a facial injury and a 27-year-old man with a broken foot.
A special inquiry had been opened "to determine the exact nature" of their injuries and "the circumstances" leading to them, Wattebled said.
Four more protesters were injured but not hospitalised, while 29 policemen also sustained injuries, two of whom had to be taken to hospital, the prosecutor's office said.
Campaigners in Sainte-Soline were trying to stop the construction of giant water "basins" to irrigate crops, which they say will distort access to water amid drought conditions.
The water reserve is the second of 16 such installations, part of a project developed by a group of 400 farmers to significantly reduce mains water usage in summer.
