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Cyril Ferez out of coma
News just in, postal worker Cyril Ferez, seriously injured by police during a protest on 18th March is out of a coma.
The unionist of Sud-PTT, Cyril Ferez, seriously injured during a protest against the CPE, 18th March Place de la Nation in Pars, has come out of his coma it was announced on Thursday by the spokesperson of the paris Hopital.
"Mr. Ferez's mental neurological condition is contintuing to impove, has has come out of his coma" said the spokesperson.
Latest on Cyril Ferez
Cyril Ferez was injured by police on Saturday 18th of March at a demonstration against CPE in Paris. He remains in a coma.
The Justice Pour Cyril website now carries a google English translation, and a large collection of video clips and freeze frame photos that appear to show postal worker and Sud-PTT member Ferez being attacked by police (see picture, above).
Cyril Ferez still comatose
Liberation is reporting that Cyril Ferez, the postal worker injured in the Place de la Nation in Paris on the demonstration of March 18th, remains in a coma.
Cyril is a member of the SUD-PTT union.
The latest medical bulletin states that “there is a progressive improvement in his neurological conditions” but that “he is showing secondary signs of lung infections”.
More on the case of Cyril Ferez here.
Occupying school students evicted
Early this morning students who had re-occupied the Bugey secondary school in the town of Belley in Ain were evicted by police.
The students had occupied the school for 114 hours. They issued several communiques over the course of the day.
Press release: March 27, 2006: Students occupying Bugey school expelled by the police.
Cyril Ferez still in a coma
We understand that the injured demonstrator of March 18th, postal worker Cyril Ferez, pictured, remains in a coma.
More on the case of Cyril Ferez here.
CNT communique: support for UMP occupation arrestees
Statement from the anarcho-syndicalist organisation CNT-France in support of 8 arrest in an anti-CPE occupation.
On Tuesday March 14th a group made up of about fifty students, secondary-school pupils, workers and unemployed met with the aim of carrying out a peaceful, symbolic action to show their refusal of the CPE and precariousness. The group decided to occupy the local branch of the UMP. Following this, 8 people were arrested by the police force and taken into custody.
Wednesday 22nd of March: Summary of events
A summary of all the latest updates and reports from the French anti-CPE movement, updated throughout the day.
Much of the what will appear in this thread will have come from a variety of sources, including the mainstream French press and alternative media such as Indymedia Paris.
New evidence emerges on injured demonstrator Cyril Ferez
New photos have emerged of Police dragging the injured demonstrator Cyril Ferez, who now lies in a coma, around 50 minutes before being found unconscious in the Place de la Nation.
They can be viewed here.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses have spoken of seeing a man believed to be postal worker Ferez being beaten by CRS shortly before he was discovered. Here is a rough translation for libcom.org of an article from France2.
Video of injured demonstrator as new information emerges
Video footage now released shows trade unionist Cyril Ferez lying injured before being helped by journalists and fellow demonstrators.
Rough translation for libcom.org of an article from Le Figaro:
Hospitalized in Créteil, the trade unionist suffers from a severe cranial traumatism. According to the Sud-PTT trade union, he "would have been trampled by a load of CRS", at the end of the demonstration of Saturday, at the Place de la Nation.
Union: Police refused to call first aid
Press release from the trade union Sud-PTT about the police's actions towards an anti-CPE postal worker they put in a coma.
During the demonstrations of March 18 calling for the withdrawal of the CPE, in Paris, Cyrile Ferez,a member of the Sud-PTT, the postal and telecommunications authorities trade union, was violently trampled by a group of police at the Place de la Nation.
