protesters and the police for three months now more than nineteen hundred demonstrators have been injured some of them seriously protesters say the police have been using disproportionate force the government says officers are on protecting themselves to w.'s lisa lewis has more from paris. this is about the only view that vitale gets of the outside world these days she's too weak to walk more than a few meters and has been suffering from almost constant headaches and heavy nose bleeding since the fifth of january that was the day that she was hit by a rubber bullet that fractured her cheek bone in three places. we were running down a side street as thirty riot police were chasing us banging their shields with their batons it was really scary suddenly another group of police blocked our way and started shooting rubber bullets at us. i was hit on the cheek and fell to the ground. then one of those grenades with rubber bullets and tear gas exploded next