The aggressiveness with which she attacked a firefighter on Sunday, during the May Day demonstrations, will remain symbolic of the violent clashes that erupted during the day.
Judged in immediate appearance this Wednesday in Paris after being referred on Tuesday, Hager A., 38, requested a postponement of his trial, as his lawyers had announced in the morning.
"We are going to request the dismissal", had indicated to AFP Me Pascual who defends her with Me Alice Becker.
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Images of a firefighter attacked by a protester
The Code of Criminal Procedure provides that a defendant may refuse to be tried on the day of her immediate appearance in order to have time to better prepare her defence.
After 48 hours in police custody, she was referred Tuesday for an immediate appearance Wednesday from 1:30 p.m.
Pending the next hearing, within a few weeks, the correctional court may place the defendant in pre-trial detention, in particular if it deems this measure necessary to guarantee her presence at her trial.
The Civil Party Prefect of Police
This former nurse was prosecuted for "violence against a person charged with a public service mission", "contempt", "rebellion" and "participation in a group with a view to committing violence".
On the images taken on Sunday by a freelance journalist accustomed to the demonstrations, a woman, identified
a posteriori
as being Hager A., attacks with anger a firefighter dispatched to the demonstration for a garbage fire.
We see the suspect, orange helmet on her head and red backpack, trying to snatch the firefighter's fire hose and hitting him on the helmet.
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The prefect of police Didier Lallement is a civil party "in support of the firefighter attacked this Sunday during the demonstration", announced a little earlier this Wednesday morning the police headquarters.
“He is alongside the General and the Paris Fire Brigade, a unit of excellence from the police headquarters,” she said on Twitter.
The prefect of police filed a civil action in support of the firefighter attacked this Sunday during the #1erMai demonstration.
He is alongside the General and the Brigade of @PompiersParis, unit of excellence of the @prefpolice.#JournéeInternationaleDesSapeursPompiers pic.twitter.com/xcdVH6gYvz
— Prefecture of Police (@prefpolice) May 4, 2022
The shocked young firefighter
“You are not going to put out the fire”, “we are going to smash you like in 2019”, would have launched Hager A. several times to a young firefighter according to testimonies collected by the police, while physically attacking him.
"2019", in a probable reference to the demonstrations of the Yellow Vests, in which she assiduously participated.
Shocked, the firefighter, a young man of 24, filed a complaint on Monday.
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Mother of two children, Hager A. was previously known to the police for two acts of minor violence in private settings, unrelated to demonstrations.
A sympathizer of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and close to the antivax movement, she indicated in the summer of 2021, in a response to the American agency Associated Press, that she had resigned from her position as a nurse in opposition to health restrictions linked to Covid-19. .
This resident of Seine-Saint-Denis would now live off odd jobs.
