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Shocking video shows disabled Yellow Vest protester pepper sprayed in face by French police

Sophie Law
Daily Mail
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 17:01 UTC

Sickening moment French police pepper spray disabled protestor in latest round of gilet jaune demos

Shocking footage of French police firing pepper spray in the eyes of a man in a wheelchair has emerged as gilet jaunes protests continue across the country.

A video taken during demonstrations in Toulouse on Saturday shows the disabled man approaching a riot officer before being sprayed in the face at close range.

The Yellow Vest protester was pleading to have his glasses returned from the officer who tries to walk away from him, according to witnesses.

A shocking photo of the man with weeping red eyes emerged shortly after the attack

The police officer then turns around and shoots the pepper spray in his face, causing the man cover his eyes and rock back and forth in agony.

A shocking photo of the man with weeping red eyes emerged shortly after the attack.

He is reportedly 'very angry' after the shocking incident, according to local reports.

It comes after a weekend of violence erupted on the streets of France for the 16th weekend in a row as yellow vests protested against the government's economic policies.

Protesters set fire to bins and threw smoke bombs as they clashed with police who used tear gas to control crowds.

Demonstrators wore red hoodies with the tricolor cockade - an emblem of the French Revolution - and stood with their mouths taped shut.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reiterated a call for calm, pointing at 'unacceptable' outbreaks of violence since the movement began in November.

Comment: Macron is always quick to critizcise the protesters and yet fails to mention the relentless violence committed by the police.

Organisers say they want to maintain pressure on the government as a two-month 'grand debate' initiated by Macron to let ordinary French people express their views on the country's economic and democratic issues is ending this month.

It follows months of continual unrest, including riots that saw the Arc de Triomphe and other public monuments attacked, with shops looted and set on fire.

Comment: Numerous protesters have been maimed by police flash bombs, some have had a hand blown off, at least 18 have lost an eye - which is why some of these weapons are banned in most EU countries - journalists have been shot in the face; medics and journalists are constantly harassed and deliberately prevented from doing their job; protestors, young and old, male and female, are frequently beaten, pepper sprayed, tear gassed and unlawfully detained by gangs of police who will unleash whatever violence is necessary to scare them off protesting. And while some of the police have previously claimed to be victims of Macron's neo-liberal destruction of the country, a large portion of them don't seem to be too reluctant in acting with incredible violence on his behalf:

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Reader Comments

Joan · 2019-03-05T19:56:45Z

Absolutely disgusting, a clearly unprovoked attack against a disabled and innocent man, simply because he was no doubt wearing a Yellow Vest. Such contempt shown beggars belief.

That policeman should be prosecuted, but in Macron's world, that will never happen.

Artex · 2019-03-05T20:10:55Z

Not completely unprovoked. Those power chairs can do some damage. You can easily break someone's leg by running them over and the victim was lurching toward him. BUT, the officer only had to step onto the curb to protect himself. Shame on him.

I worked in a nursing home for several years and saw the same type of powered wheelchair take chunks out of walls and sprain the ankles of nursing assistants on multiple occasions.

Joan · 2019-03-05T22:37:55Z

@Artex, I have also worked in a facility where mobility devices are used by residents, they were assessed by an OT specialist, for safety of use. They were issued a license to drive within facility and also outside facility.

The incidents you describe, would be grounds for denying a permit to drive such a device, just like any other motorized vehicle, it would be denied on the grounds that they are unsafe to drive for their own safety and the safety of others.

Remember, that mobility devices are used to assist a person who is unable to use their legs to walk, seems to me that is what this person was doing, just approaching a police officer using a mechanical device.

Maybe there should be recognition of the police, of people with disabilities and the use of motorized vehicles.

All I see is a man following the police officer in order to provide an answer for his request concerning his glasses, which also brings up another safety issue, why where they smashed. For a disabled person, and here I am assuming, he was probably on some form of disability benefits, and the los of his glasses, could be a financial issue.

Yes, the officer could have easily stepped onto the pavement, but then again, he could also have moved to the side of the person and listened to his voice and objections, instead he was pepper sprayed.

I call that contempt.

LindaMay · 2019-03-06T01:49:21Z

Merde!!! Cops get hit with fecal bombs during Yellow Vest protests in Marseille

The Yellow Vest protesters have apparently adopted an unconventional weapon against the French law enforcement - fecal bombs. At least three policemen have been already affected by them during the...

SHIT

Joan · 2019-03-06T02:24:20Z

LindMay I don't know why you posted this, without explanation, it seems to me more denigration of the Yellow Vest Movement that take delight in what is called

Coprophilia

Coprophilia is the condition of desire for sexual gratification and sexual arousal derived from the smell, taste, or sight of feces or from the act of defecation. It commonly is referred to by the slang term scat. Although ostensibly a somewhat limited practice, it figures prominently in the foundations of the science of psychology. Sigmund Freud outlined a stage of psychosexual development called the anal stage that involves the child's obsession with the anus as an erogenous zone. The process of toilet training sets up a conflict between the child's pleasure in defecation and pressures exerted on the child to control his or her bodily functions. The way children resolve this conflict is seen as a primary means of establishing the way they later will deal with authority and issues of possession.

I think Hervery Cleckley described something similar in his book, The Mask of Sanity, where those that are psychopathology deranged, take delight in taking vacations in filth, filth being to live outside the world of normal accepted human behavior, where the most gross and animal instincts are accepted.

And to me that shows the level of influence that .Macron and his government are going to, to shock and disgust the French people

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-03-06T06:21:28Z

Joan Would you prefer they throw Molotov Cocktails? Or only up to the point that there are as many dead cops as there are protesters?

Or just be polite, right up until they put you into a cattle car?

R.C.

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-03-06T06:10:46Z

As to the guy in the motorized wheelchair, in Bag of Bones, his protagonist is (here's a shocker) an author from Maine.

Anyway, aat one point the villian, a a malevolent old man, nd his villianous old caretaker lady use the combination of his using his chair to force the Author into a lake, etc.

Truth, Fiction, art life, imitations. etc.

R.C.

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-03-06T06:13:23Z

Rowan Cocoan (By Steven King). (Don't gimme grief cause I read a book lying around - and just because he's popular doesn't (necessarily make him a bad writer; he's actually OK; just not my cup of tea.)

I'm currently re-reading a different translation of The Illiad.

R,C,

Joan · 2019-03-06T06:40:53Z

Rowan Cocoan Strange, I thought you may have picked up on the corprophilia comment.

Joan · 2019-03-06T06:44:42Z

@Rowan Cocoan, Strange, I thought you may have picked up on the corprophjilia comment.

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-03-06T06:47:48Z

Joan If that's supposed to be a cheap shot, it's a damn weak one.

Likewise, my old fashioned self won't allow me to respond in kind to a lady, or, (perhaps?) in this case, merely a female? (Same rules apply there.)

R.C.

Joan · 2019-03-06T07:01:37Z

Well, no cheap shot intended, that is only in the mind of the recipient. Judge as you will, lady or female.

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kksalm · 2019-03-06T07:58:43Z

What’s so hard to interpret a “feces bomb”?

i don’t get the jump to your conclusion of Commentator Joan

“Coprophilia is the condition of desire for sexual gratification”

its a feces bomb, I don’t get your assumption

have a nice day

Doomsday · 2019-03-06T08:51:09Z

Power-crazed cops who forgot their oath to protect the public and uphold the law, eagerly protecting the corrupt establishment - shooting protesters and people with flashball guns in the face, spraying mace, putting out people's eyes... Yup, each of them definitely deserve a "non-lethal" shit-cocktail.

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