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France probes case of man gravely injured at water protest

The 32-year-old has been fighting for his life in a coma since Saturday's thousands-strong environmental protest against a new  'mega-basin' gathering water for irrigation at Sainte-Soline in western France.

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French prosecutors said Wednesday they were probing the case of a man seriously wounded at a demonstration over access to water, after his family filed a criminal complaint, reports Yahoo! News.

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