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A Montreal police officer charged with assault in connection with an altercation caught on video is accusing the government of haggling charges with her alleged victims and asked for a stay of proceedings.

Stéfanie Trudeau, also known as Agent 728, wasn’t in Quebec Court Wednesday when the motion was presented, but was represented by lawyer Jean-Pierre Rancourt.

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The 10-page motion claims the Crown was so keen to charge Trudeau that it agreed to drop charges against her four alleged victims in exchange for their statements against her. Without those statements, it says, there would be no case against Trudeau.

“We respectfully submit that in choosing to formally drop the charges against Serge Lavoie, Simon Pagé, Karen Molina and Rudi Ochietti in March 2013, the Crown chose to bargain with criminal charges,” the motion says, adding that it is a dubious strategy.

Trudeau was suspended from the force in October 2012 after a video recorded with a cellphone showed her holding a man in a headlock in a stairwell during an arrest and using profanity when relaying details of the scene to her supervisor.