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5 April: CPE protests updates
Latest news from the anti-CPE struggle from across France from Wednesday 5 April including blockades of businesses and roads.
-The police force have opened the Gustave Eiffel High School, in Gagny, by force
-A hundred anti-CPE demonstrators, including the Revolutionary Communist League figurehead and postal worker Olivier Besancenot, blocked the postal sorting office in Nanterre earlier today
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.
Strike of 28th March: Update
On Monday evening, along with the mainstream English language media, we incorrectly reported that unions had announced a General Strike for the 28th of March.
This was wrong, in fact the unions had who met on Monday had only called for strike action to take place on the 28th of March. In the days since, individual unions (specific to their sector) have since been announcing their intentions with regard strike action on the 28th. This is a list of those union sector/ branches who will strike next Tuesday:
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.
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.
