WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, OCL: Official reactions to the publication of the report on Sainte-Soline (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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---- "Lying can be viewed as the stepping stone of all vices." Joseph
Sanial-Dubay 1813 ---- Official reactions to the publication of the
report on Sainte-Soline ---- Press release from the inter-observatories
18.07.2023 ---- Since the publication of the report Preventing access to
the bedpan regardless of the human cost, most official reactions have
consisted in trying to disqualify its conclusions going through crude
questioning of the conditions of production of this work.
In particular, the numerous unfounded attacks concerning the status of
the observatories[1]have only served as pretexts for the public
authorities to evade the production of real answers as to the
substantive conclusions established by this meticulous work.

On the day of the release of the report, the prefect of Deux-Sèvres
published a press release aimed solely at refuting the obstruction of
relief, without mobilizing any other argument than the "context
complicated by the deliberate absence of exchanges on the part of the
organizers of this prohibited assembly".

On this point, the report mentions that informal exchanges took place at
the initiative of the Confédération paysanne and moreover shows that the
lack of contact with the organizers does not relieve the State of
responsibility vis-à-vis towards injured people. The obligation to
provide assistance in the event of vital distress prevails in all cases.
In addition, on the violent clashes which would have justified delaying
the intervention of the emergency services, it is shown in the report
that the area where Serge D. was in particular had been completely calm
since 2:08 p.m.
Finally, it should be recalled again that contrary to what the prefect
of Deux-Sèvres asserts, participation in a prohibited event is not a
crime, but an offense corresponding to a 4th class fine[2].
Then, on July 12, when the head of the IGGN chose to speak before the
National Assembly on the investigations in progress, in particular that
concerning the facts of non-assistance to persons in danger, he
indicated that he had no seen image of gendarmes blocking an ambulance.

Surprised, we refer him to the data in the report, whether it be the
statements of the regulating doctors indicating that they are waiting
for authorization from the command team to approach the premises, or the
photographs attesting to the lifting at 3:15 p.m. of a roadblock of
gendarmes positioned in front of the fire brigade.
In addition, we noted that, if many injured people were indeed moved
(against any medical prescription) during the demonstration, it is in
particular because of the grenade fire that they suffered: this is the
case of Serge D ., moved at 1:54 p.m. because of grenade fire by the
PM2I (despite the report of its situation at 1:48 p.m.).
These false assertions reiterated by the public authorities are
particularly damaging, since they prolong the expression of a desire to
manipulate public information, a practice that has become common, which
is precisely analyzed in the report.

Thus, we therefore deplore the maintenance of this official version,
which is moreover based once again on factually false elements, despite
the concrete evidence provided by the report drawn up by the
inter-observatories.

No substantive response was provided to this report. We therefore renew
our request that light be shed on the policing strategy adopted by the
authorities, which consisted of:

To set up a criminalizing communication, before and after this
demonstration, to disqualify the object of the mobilization and try to
justify the repressive arsenal deployed against the demonstrators.
To make a massive, indiscriminate and disproportionate use of weapons,
leading to very many injured people.
To hinder rescue in the event of an injured person in a situation of
vital distress.
Paris, July 19, 2023

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P.S.
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title attached documents
Summary of the report of the Observatory of Civil Liberties (PDF - 77.3 kio)
The full report is 164 pages. Here is a summary of the essential points
in 3 pages

Ratings
[1]For more information on the status of observers: cf. Observing law
enforcement action is a right | The Club (mediapart.fr)

[2]Article R.644-4 of the Penal Code

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