France: Engineer loses a testicle after being hit by French police throughout a protest in Paris

A 26-year-old engineer misplaced a testicle after he was hit within the groin by a French police officer throughout demonstrations in Paris on Thursday (January 19).

As per experiences, the sufferer was current throughout an indication towards the French authorities’s plan to lift the age of retirement from 62 years to 64 years. It is estimated that about 1 million individuals took to the streets in protests.

The man was taking photos of the confrontation between the cops and the protestors when he was reportedly knocked on the bottom by a police supply. After discovering him in a weak place, one other cop in riot gear charged at him and planted a blow on the sufferer’s groin.

The video of the incident, which was caught on digital camera, is now going viral on social media. The sufferer has been recognized as one Ivan S. Following the incident, the 26-year-old was admitted to the hospital the place his one testicle was surgically eliminated.

A Spanish photographer has had a testicle amputated after being hit within the crotch with a baton whereas he was on the bottom following a police cost.

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He has engaged the providers of a lawyer named Lucie Simon and is now continuing with a lawsuit for “voluntary violence that led to mutilation by a person vested with public authority.”

Simon knowledgeable that Ivan remains to be in a state of shock and is present process remedy on the hospital. “It was such a strong blow that he had to have a testicle amputated…This is not a case of self-defence or necessity. The proof is in the images we have and the fact that he was then not arrested,” she mentioned.

The sufferer, by means of his lawsuit, hopes to place an finish to violence perpetrated by the police. He is a resident of a French abroad area named Guadeloupe. Meanwhile, police chief (Paris) Laurent Nunez has ordered an inquiry into the matter.

A French authorities spokesperson named Olivier Veran has expressed ’empathy’ for the sufferer, including that the circumstances that led to the police intervention wanted to be understood.