The hand of a 17-year-old demonstrator torn off in Saint-Étienne during a mobilization on October 17, the investigation entrusted to the IGPN

A young 17-year-old boy was seriously injured in one hand on Saturday afternoon in Saint-Etienne on the sidelines of the October 17 mobilization, Saint-Etienne Loire learns HERE from the Loire prefecture. An investigation was entrusted to the IGPN, the police department, according to the prosecution. The young man was transported to the city's university hospital. For the moment, the circumstances remain quite unclear, in particular whether it was a stun grenade or whether or not it was picked up by the victim.

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The accident took place in front of a shopping center, where for an hour around 3 p.m., demonstrators faced the police, tear gas on one side against mortar fire and fireworks on the other. We will now have to determine whether this demonstrator had his hand blown off by a grenade and whether he picked it up before it exploded or whether it landed on him.