More than the claims, it is a controversy that emerged from the demonstration of caregivers in Paris. A nurse was arrested on Tuesday, June 16, on the sidelines of the mobilization for "contempt and throwing projectiles on the police", a police source reported to Agence France-Presse (AFP) while several videos of his arrest circulate on Twitter.
On this video, we see a woman wearing a white blouse arrested unceremoniously by the police when clashes broke out when the procession of 18,000 demonstrators arrived, according to figures from the police headquarters, on the Esplanade des Invalides.
On some videos, we hear the nurse asking for her ventoline, a drug used by people with asthma.
A woman in a white blouse, pulled by the hair, during an arrest, will end up being evacuated with a bloody face during the demonstration at the Invalides. She will repeatedly claim her Ventoline.
Images from my direct on @brutofficiel (1H45). #careers pic.twitter.com/zdxIbTS4Mu
Other videos show the same person a few minutes before his arrest throw projectiles towards the police.
We are re-establishing the truth with a video from @BFMTV.
The nice nurse, who needed her ventoline, and who is presented as a victim of #Police!
She was throwing projectiles, just before her arrest!
So we keep talking about #PoliceViolence? pic.twitter.com/z3RoWp5Oak
A rally to demand his release
"A police officer hit by one of these projectiles will file a complaint," the police source told AFP on Wednesday. At the end of the demonstration, the police prefecture reported 32 arrests linked to the scuffles.
A rally demanding the release of the nurse, in a context of denunciation of police violence in France, is held on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in front of the police station of the 7th arrondissement in the presence of Eric Coquerel, Mathilde Panot and Danièle Obono, deputies of La France Insoumise. "Free Farida the nurse," tweeted their leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The deputies @MathildePanot, @Deputee_Obono and @ericcoquerel entered the police station. Freedom for Farida the nurse! #LiberezFarida #June 16 pic.twitter.com/XFYKzO4z0C
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) June 16, 2020With AFP
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