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Police denied existence of seriously injured demonstrator
Le Monde is reporting that on Sunday morning, the police prefecture had announced that 34 police officers and 18 demonstrators had been wounded.
The prefecture had then specified that none had been seriously injured, ignoring the 39-year-old postal worker left in a coma by police.
39 year-old trade unionist in a coma
A trade unionist of the South-Postal and Telecommunications Authorities trade union (Sud-PTT), a 39 year old, was left in a coma following clashes with police.
The worker was wounded on Saturday at the end of the anti-CPE demonstration at the Places de la Nation in Paris.
Strike called as demonstrator remains in coma
Trade unions and students' organisations have named Tuesday 28th March as a nationwide day of strikes and protests.
Meanwhile a French postal worker remains in a serious condition in hospital after Saturdays demonstration where we understand he was trampled by CRS riot police.
Anti-CPE Movement: Nanterre university, Paris, 20th March 2006
Pepper spray attack by police on students and staff occupying Nanterre university on 20th March 2006. Photos from Paris Indymedia.
Police fortify positions around the Sorbonne
We understand that police have chosen to defend their positions around the Sorbonne University on the left bank of Paris.
We believe this strategy is designed to draw those inclined to the riot towards the Sorbonne- to ensure that it becomes the epicentre of the struggle between the state and the French youth & students.
Information from Indymedia Paris:
As situation escalates, police fire rubber bullets
Riot police last night fired rubber pellets and tear gas at students who pelted them with petrol bombs and stones as protests at new labour laws boiled over in the heart of Paris.
Police fought running battles with the rioters, who set cars alight and smashed shop windows near the Sorbonne on the Left Bank.
Violence against demonstrations in France
Police units attack anti-CPE demonstration and anarchists are arrested as repression against the movement steps up.
In the Parisian banlieue of Sevres, a protest was attacked from both sides by CRS riot police and was further attacked by the RG (an independent police intelligence unit often accused of spying upon journalists and political opponents). This is part of a general state crackdown on the protests across France.
CRS break Sorbonne occupation
After three days of occupation riot police (CRS) evicted the 400 occupiers of the Sorbonne just before 4am.
Teargas canisters were fired in the halls of the building as in the courtyard young students were struck by truncheon blows whilst non-violently resisting the eviction. Outside the complex, police arrested around 25 of a group of 200 supporters who were still milling around.
Demonstration over death in Plumstead
On Sunday, while the media was focused on the protests at the Danish embassy, another protest involving the Somali community in London was occurring, ignored by almost all media sources.
The robbers who shot dead WPC Sharon Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford last year, allegedly have links to the Somali community in the Woolwich/Plumstead area. The local youths have accused the cops of being out for revenge and running a racist vendetta against them. On January 10th Police raided a house in Plumstead looking for a suspect.
Police called to Belfast posties' picket line
On the eighth day of the Belfast postal workers' wildcat strike police have been called to picket lines which were blocking the entries to the Mallusk sorting office.
Meanwhile, the Londonderry Communication Workers Union refused to join the strike, repudiating the "illegal" action.
The strike has now begun to affect deliveries to outside Northern Ireland, and Royal Mail has drafted in managers from mainland Britain to act as scabs.
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