The family of a 73-year-old woman is taking legal action after she was struck by police during the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests in Nice, reported French media.
Pictures taken by Reuters on Saturday and circulated on social media showed Genevieve Legay lying on the ground after apparently hitting her head on a metal bar.
Doctors said Legay was "conscious, coherent, and could answer all the questions," reported local newspaper Nice-Matin.
Legay, the spokeswoman for the local office of an anti-globalisation NGO, was protesting in a banned area of the city centre when the police charged into the group she was with.
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