PARIS: Doctors amputated the testicle of a young man who got clubbed in the groin by a police officer during a huge demonstration in Paris and who plans to file a lawsuit, daily French newspaper Liberation quoted him as saying in an article on Sunday.

The incident occurred during a spurt of violence at a mostly peaceful march on Thursday by tens of thousands of people opposed to a hotly contested government pension reform plan. About 1 million people marched in cities across France that day.

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