The 38-year-old woman was also sentenced to a year of prohibition to demonstrate and to pay 700 euros to the firefighter. Her lawyers announced that she had appealed.
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38-year-old woman arrested after assaulta Paris firefighter in the capital during the May 1 parade, was found guilty on Wednesday June 1. JBrought to an immediate appearance in Paris, she was sentenced, in her absence, to ten months’ imprisonment and a one-year ban on demonstrations. She will have to pay 700 euros to the firefighter for non-pecuniary damage, and one euro to the prefect of police.
The defendant appealed, said her lawyers, Ainoha Pascual and Alice Becker. On the videos taken during the May Day demonstration posted on social networks, we see the 30-year-old, orange helmet on her head, trying to snatch the fire hose from a firefighter in the process of extinguishing a fire lit by Some protestors. After several unsuccessful attempts, she strikes him twice on the helmet before being overpowered. She was arrested an hour later.
“She was determined”she has “sent her arms around me and my spear and she wouldn’t let go”declared before the criminal court the firefighter, who was trying at the time of the facts to extinguish a fire which risked spreading to an apartment building. “She told me several times: ‘We’re going to smash you like in 2019′”in reference to the demonstrations of the movement of “yellow vests”, said the firefighter.
This single mother, already convicted in 2018 for acts of violence, did not appear in court. On May 4, very stricken, often in tears, she presented herself to the hearing as “CDI employee trainer in the field of hygiene” after having been “caregiver during the Covid”. His lawyers argued his psychological fragility and anxiety attacks, and requested the postponement of the substantive hearing, rejected by the president.