00:00 It was a relatively close flashball shot.
00:02 The shock was so violent,
00:03 I felt like I was missing a part of my face.
00:06 I definitely lost my sight.
00:07 I was lucky I didn't lose my sight that day.
00:11 Some people didn't have that luck.
00:12 I was attacked on the night of June 29-30
00:17 by four police officers in a small alley in Nanterre.
00:21 After Christmas walk,
00:22 I was waiting for the riot police to come back.
00:25 Then I ran into this patrol of police officers that changed my life.
00:27 I was walking alone.
00:28 As I said, the streets were deserted.
00:30 I saw a patrol of police officers wearing helmets
00:33 walking in my direction.
00:34 I didn't pay much attention.
00:37 When they got closer to me,
00:39 they said, "Heyo, you, get out of here!"
00:42 When I looked up to look at them,
00:43 they shot me in the head with a flashball.
00:45 I didn't have time to talk.
00:46 I had nothing to be hostile to them.
00:50 You don't understand the gratuity of the gesture
00:51 and the violence of the gesture.
00:52 I'm 1.82m tall,
00:54 so to shoot me in the face,
00:56 you really have to have a very high shoulder.
00:57 It can't be an accident.
00:59 It's easier to shoot me in the chest or in the legs
01:02 if I have to shoot myself.
01:03 But there's no reason to shoot myself.
01:05 The last image recorded by my left eye
01:07 is the flashball and the light
01:10 in the direction of my face.
01:12 Instinctively, I thought that if I fell to the ground at that moment,
01:15 I might die.
01:17 So I put my hand on the ground
01:21 and I ran away.
01:22 I felt like I had no face left.
01:26 I met a person.
01:27 The person was so stunned by my injuries
01:30 that he couldn't answer me.
01:31 And then I lost consciousness.
01:33 When I regained my senses, I was on a scooter
01:35 because young people had picked me up
01:37 and they tried to take me to the hospital.
01:39 The police had barricaded Nanterre,
01:42 they had made dams all over the place.
01:43 They pointed at us with the LBDs,
01:44 they told us, "Go away, we don't give a shit."
01:47 While I had a face that was bleeding,
01:49 I knew that I was really...
01:51 My face was really touched.
01:53 Especially when I saw the face of the medical staff.
01:56 No one was looking me in the eyes,
01:57 no one was answering me.
01:58 A doctor then told me,
02:01 "Your eye is seriously injured.
02:03 We're going to try to do what we can to fix it as much as possible."
02:06 And so it's not fixable?
02:07 No, I definitely lost my sight.
02:09 And you had other injuries?
02:11 Multiple fractures all around my eye.
02:13 All the muscles, all the bones were broken.
02:16 I lost hearing in my left ear.
02:19 I have migraines all the time,
02:20 already due to the violence of the shock.
02:22 And my eye, on top of that, which tries to compensate for both,
02:25 the fact of living with one eye,
02:27 it's a whole different perception of life and the world around me.
02:30 Sitting properly on a stool,
02:33 pouring water into a glass,
02:36 it changes all the little daily gestures.
02:39 And it's also the whole perception of my future life that changes.
02:42 I wanted to become a professional in martial arts,
02:45 especially in MMA.
02:46 There are a lot of jobs,
02:48 especially...
02:50 jobs on the road that I can't do anymore.
02:52 It's been a boom all my life,
02:53 because I'm young, I'm 24 years old,
02:55 and living with one eye and being disfigured all my life,
02:58 it's not easy.
03:00 I could be angry, I could be sad,
03:01 but it's not going to get me anywhere in life.
03:04 What I want is for justice to be done
03:07 so that gestures like that no longer happen.
03:11 Because it's unacceptable.
03:13 We are in France.
03:15 There are laws.
03:15 If when they are imposed, there are no sanctions,
03:19 I wonder what they are for.
03:22 I would like us to be all equal before justice.
03:24 I filed a complaint with the IGPN against X
03:27 for voluntary violence by a person
03:29 a public authority depositor.
03:31 I have no particular hatred for the police.
03:35 For the police to understand,
03:36 they have to understand that when you press a trigger,
03:39 there is something definitive going on.
03:41 Whether it's with a firearm,
03:42 whether it's with a so-called non-lethal weapon,
03:45 like a LBD.
03:46 But in any case, when you press a trigger,
03:48 it changes your life.
03:48 I still have several months of rehabilitation
03:52 and medical exams.
03:54 It's far from over for me.
03:55 I'm lucky I didn't lose my life that day.
03:58 And I'm aware of that.
04:00 Some didn't have that chance.
04:01 [Bleep]
04:03 ♪♪
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