The nurse arrested in June 2020 during a demonstration, is judged Monday for "contempt" and "violence without ITT" on people holding public authority.
She recognized the projectile throws and justified her gesture by a feeling of anger against the State in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis.
The image of this nurse, pinned to the ground while she claimed her Ventolin had aroused emotion.
Arrested for throwing projectiles at the police on the sidelines of a demonstration of caregivers, in June 2020, it appears Monday before the Paris court for "contempt" and "violence without temporary incapacity for work".
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Anger directed at the state
In the midst of the debate on police violence, his muscular arrest had angered the left-wing opposition and forced the government to step up to defend the action of the police.
Relayed on social networks, videos of his arrest showed a woman wearing a white blouse unceremoniously arrested by the police against a background of clashes at the arrival of the procession on the Esplanade des Invalides.
Other videos showed the same person throwing projectiles at the police a few minutes earlier.
During her hearing, the nurse admitted having thrown stones in the direction of the police while specifying that her anger was not directed against the police but against the State, according to a source familiar with the matter.
"She will explain why and how a 51-year-old nurse, mother of two, who has never committed any offense or violence comes to behave like that in the context of a demonstration," explained to the AFP his lawyer Arié Alimi, referring to "the violence suffered by the hospital, caregivers, patients, both before and during the Covid crisis".
A woman in a white coat, pulled by the hair, during an arrest, will end up evacuated with a bloody face during the demonstration at the Invalides.
She will repeatedly claim her Ventolin.
Images from my live on @brutofficiel (1H45).
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- Remy Buisine (@RemyBuisine) June 16, 2020
His supporters demand that the context not be evaded
Indeed, the facts occurred in a context where she had worked for months during the peak of the epidemic, last year, exhausted, herself contaminated by the coronavirus, and having had to face the death of about twenty of patients under his eyes.
Today, his supporters ask that the context is not evaded when the court examines the facts.
A call to demonstrate in front of the Batignolles court was launched by Solidaires and the CGT who plead for a "total relaxation" of Farida C., considering that the place of this nurse working at the Paul-Brousse hospital in Villejuif (Val- de-Marne) is not "on the dock".