The 38-year-old woman is suspected of having tried to prevent a firefighter from extinguishing a fire of pallets and having kicked him, on the sidelines of the May Day parade in Paris.
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The trial of the woman suspected of having assaulted a firefighter on the sidelines of the May 1 parade in Paris is postponed to June 1, at the request of the defendant, noted a franceinfo journalist at the Paris court on Wednesday May 4. In the meantime, she is placed under judicial supervision.
A ban on participating in a demonstration as well as carrying a weapon was also decided by the court. A medico-psychological expertise of the suspect was also ordered.
The public prosecutor had asked for his placement in pre-trial detention pending his trial, explaining that “It is not trivial but this exceptional measure seems to us a measure proportionate to the seriousness of the facts and to a risk of repetition”.
This 38-year-old woman was very feverish in the defendant’s box after three nights spent in police custody. She cried during the brief hearing, holding her head in her hands, as the court considered her personality. The mother of two, a volunteer street medic during the protests, is trained as a nurse’s aide but works in a company where she trains people in cleaning.
According to information from franceinfo, this woman is a regular in processions of “yellow vests”. Calls to demonstrate in favor of the movement, launched a few weeks ago, are published on his Facebook account. In addition, she presents herself as an anti-health pass activist and claims freedom convoys, created by truck drivers in Canada to express their opposition to health measures against Covid-19.