A man, injured in the head during the national demonstration of "yellow vests" Saturday in Bourges, is still hospitalized, placed in artificial coma, and an investigation is under way to determine the circumstances of this injury. According to police sources, the 36-year-old man presented himself at the Bourges hospital Saturday before gradually losing the use of speech. He was then transferred to Tours Hospital. His days are not in danger even though his injury is considered serious.
During the demonstration Saturday, enamelled by clashes, 11 people, including two CRS, were injured, according to a report given by the prefecture late afternoon. Access to the city center had been banned, but during the demonstration about 600 "yellow vests" left the official procession and entered the city center.
The IGPN has been seized. Projectiles were fired by the security forces with tear gas and LBDs. A water cannon was fired at the end of the demonstration on the square where the "yellow vests" had been allowed to gather and where they attempted to erect barricades.
Alerted Sunday to the presence in the hospital of Tours of a man seriously wounded in the head, the public prosecutor of Bourges, Joel Guarrigue, had seized the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) to specify the conditions of these injuries qualified as serious. Since then, the police have been trying to collect testimonies and watch all the films taken by the CCTV cameras during this event.