The two videos below are in French, and were originally subtitled in German. MissPiggy has translated the German to create the English version. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

WARNING: The first video shows a somewhat graphic image of the injury sustained by a protester who lost an eye to a police flashball. Sensitive viewers may want to skip this clip:

In the second video, a journalist named David Dufresne describes the serious injuries sustained by Yellow Vest protesters at the hands of police since the demonstrations began last November:

Video transcript #1:

00:00 I am a horticulturalist. —You can’t do your job anymore? —No, I can’t do my job 00:04 anymore. I can no longer touch the soil because the slightest dust might go into 00:08 my eye. Here, have a look. —Oh f**k! 00:12 Do you know the power of what you received? 00:16 Yes, it’s 220 joules, that’s about 320km / h.(199mph) 00:21 That’s right, and y’know, a boxer’s punch to the face is 100 joules. 00:25 Yes, we call that a Mike Tyson punch. —Sorry, Mike Tyson doesn’t punch like that. 00:30 Correct, Jean-Marc in the video you explain that you feel hatred? —Yes. 00:36 Who do you want? —The son of a bitch who did this to me! 00:41 I’m sorry to talk like that, but I’m so filled with hate that I can’t put it any other way. 00:46 For me that person is a son of a bitch. Just like Olivier, who was shot in the back 00:50 last week while walking. I’m not returning, the same thing will happen to me. 00:57 We give tools to people who don’t know how to use them, who don’t possess 01:03 the capacity, who aim at the head on purpose. It looks like we gave toys to kids 01:09 at Christmas, and they’re playing cowboys and Indians. It’s not normal, it’s not normal 01:16 to do that to a people. To me or anyone else, in the head, it’s not normal…



Video transcript #2: