PARIS: AFP has interviewed more than a dozen people who say they were blinded in one eye by rubber bullets or other projectiles fired by police during the recent months of"yellow vest" protests in France.
Several cases involve the use of so-called defence ball launchers , which fire 40-millimetre rubber projectiles. Their use has been criticised by political parties and civil liberties groups.AdvertisementDidron, 20, was demonstrating in Paris on Dec 1, when he says he was struck in the head by a rubber bullet.
"There was firing everywhere, flames, it was war ... At one point my friend was hit in the leg. I reassured him, laid him on his side," he said. Fiorina Lignier says an exploding tear gas canister damaged her left eye during the Dec 8 protest in Paris. Patrice Philippe says he will campaign against"so-called nonlethal weapons" after being blinded in his right eye by a rubber bullet.
Even if the yellow vest movement dies out, he now sees himself engaged in"a much more important battle... against so-called nonlethal weapons."Langard, 33, was demonstrating with friends on Dec 15 in Paris when she says she was struck in the left eye by a rubber bullet.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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