The grainy footage has horrified France. Mael, a 16-year-old schoolboy, is sitting on the pavement in front of a large pool of blood.
His right eye has been destroyed by a police rubber bullet during a violent protest outside a high school, the Lycée Balzac, in the cathedral city of Tours.
‘Mael was moaning in pain. His eyebrow was swelling. He said his eye stung. We were trying to mop him up with tissues,’ recalled Tatiana, who lives next to the school.
She had watched police and students face off in the morning- long battle ten days ago – just one of many
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