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Representación editorial generada de la zona de la estación de Mulhouse durante la manifestación del sábado. · Imagen generada EPM

A 17-Year-Old Loses Sight in One Eye in Mulhouse, France

A 17-year-old French girl definitively lost the sight in her left eye after being hit by a tear gas canister in Mulhouse.

--- The context --- France saw demonstrations over the weekend in dozens of cities against the poor state of public education, the high cost of living and police violence in recent weeks. In Mulhouse, in Alsace, the day ended with a serious injury that renews scrutiny of the use of force. --- The facts --- A 17-year-old French girl lost the sight in her left eye after being hit in the face by a tear gas canister fired in Mulhouse. According to the Mulhouse prosecutor, the injury caused the definitive loss of her left eye. After the impact, the girl was treated by firefighters and taken to hospital, according to the prosecutor office itself, which has opened an investigation into what happened on Saturday. The demonstration took place on Saturday near the station and was attended by close to a thousand people. According to the prosecutor office, a group of 400 headed toward the station to try to break into the building, officers used tear gas and they faced fireworks being thrown. --- The positions --- The prosecutor office maintains that tear gas was used to protect travellers and to respond to the attempted looting of several shops, and warns that the operations were extremely difficult. The General Inspectorate of the National Police has taken charge of the case given the seriousness of the injury. --- What remains unknown --- The investigations under the direction of the prosecutor office seek to determine the exact course of the events. The office warns that they will be complex, given the large number of people present and the extremely difficult nature of the operations. No closed reconstruction has yet been reported. --- Unanswered questions --- How exactly was the shot that hit the 17-year-old girl in the face fired in Mulhouse? What distance and circumstances surrounded the use of the tear gas canister near the station? When will the investigation offer a complete reconstruction of what happened on Saturday? What measures will follow this third intervention recorded during Saturday across France? --- EPM analysis --- The case was not isolated. It is the third intervention by the General Inspectorate of the National Police during Saturday, after the amputation of a demonstrator hand in Saint-Étienne and the serious head injury of another demonstrator in Paris. Three serious injuries in one day focus attention on the methods used. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, a 17-year-old girl who definitively loses the sight in one eye requires a swift, transparent investigation with public findings on how the impact occurred in Mulhouse. The complexity cited by the prosecutor office cannot become a wait without answers, because two other serious injuries were recorded on the same day in Saint-Étienne and in Paris. Establishing the facts, assigning responsibility and reviewing tear gas use at crowded protests is now an unavoidable institutional duty for France.
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