仏年金改革抗議デモ参加者、警察の殴打受け負傷　睾丸切除

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】フランス・パリで先週、年金制度改革案に抗議するデモにカメラを持って参加していた男性が、警察官から警棒で股間を強く殴打されて負傷し、片方の睾丸（こうがん）の切除を余儀なくされた。男性の代理人弁護士が２２日、明らかにした。（写真は仏パリで、年金制度改革案に抗議するデモに対応する警察）
　インターネットで拡散している１９日のデモの様子を捉えた動画には、カメラを所持し、地面に倒れている男性の両脚の間を警察官が殴打し、立ち去る様子が映っている。
　代理人によると、男性はスペイン系の２６歳で、カリブ海にある海外県グアドループ在住のエンジニア。デモの写真を撮っていた。「公権力の行使者による、体の一部切断につながる故意の暴力」を受けたとして、被害届を出す意向だという。
　さらに、「殴打は激しく、片方の睾丸を切除しなければならなかった」と代理人は説明。男性は現在も入院中でショック状態にあり、なぜ負傷する羽目に陥ったのかと問い続けているという。
　この事態を受けてパリ警視庁は、内部調査を指示したと発表。一方で、今回の出来事は「過激な暴力を背景に、暴力的な個人を拘束するための警察活動の範囲内で起きた」との見解を示した。
　内務省によると、パリで１９日に行われたデモには約８万人が参加。年金制度改革案には、年金支給開始年齢を６２歳から６４歳に引き上げることが含まれており、各地で抗議活動が続いている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/01/24-13:31）

A French policeman dealt a man with a camera such a strong truncheon blow during pension reform protests this week that he had to have a testicle amputated, the man's lawyer said Sunday.
Images and footage from Thursday's demonstrations circulating online shows a policeman hitting a man on the ground between the legs, and then leaving. The man is seen holding a camera.
Lawyer Lucie Simon said she was filing a complaint on behalf of her client, a 26-year-old Franco-Spanish engineer who was taking pictures of the gathering, for voluntary violence that led to mutilation by a person vested with public authority.
It was such a strong blow that he had to have a testicle amputated, she said, adding that the engineer was still in hospital.
This is not a case of self-defence or necessity. The proof is in the images we have and the fact that he was then not arrested.
The engineer, who lives on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, is still in shock and keeps asking why he was wounded, the lawyer added.
The Paris police department said it had ordered an internal investigation, adding that the incident had happened in a context of extreme violence and within a police manoeuvre to arrest violent individuals.
Government spokesman Olivier Veran told the BFMTV broadcaster that he felt empathy for the young man.
But he stressed the need to understand the conditions in which this intervention occurred.
The interior ministry said 80,000 people marched in Paris on Thursday, as part of nationwide protests against President Emmanuel Macron's plan to extend the retirement age from 62 to 64.
The hard-left CGT union however said it counted 400,000 protesters in the French capital.
Around the Bastille area of Paris, some demonstrators hurled bottles, bins and smoke grenades at police, who responded with tear gas and charged to disperse the troublemakers, according to AFP journalists at the scene.