This is more over the entire year 2021. In recent weeks, two people have been killed in urban rodeos, and a 7 -year -old child was injured.
Le Monde with AFP
The figures are already much higher than those of last year. Since the beginning of the year, already more than 2,200 people have been arrested, and 1,800 scooters and motorcycles have been seized for having served for urban rodeos, Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, announced on Wednesday August 17, During a trip to Créteil (Val-de-Marne).
In total, 16,000 police operations have been carried out since January 2022. In 2021, there had been 9,800 checks, for 1,345 arrests and 1,200 motorized vehicles seized, said the Minister.
Intensifications in controls
“It is not a policy of figure, it is the activity of the police and gendarmerie services,” he insisted during a visit to the Créteil police station (Val-de-Marne ), and “at the same time that we fight against rodeos, we fight against stups and we fight against cars and motorcycles”.
On August 8, the Minister of the Interior had announced an intensification of controls throughout France against people carrying out urban rodeos. Since that date, more than 150 scooters and motorcycles have been seized during nearly 3,000 police and gendarmerie operations, said Minister on Tuesday on Twitter, assuring that this Wednesday “each police station would lead at least three anti- Rodeos per day “.
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“Since yesterday [Tuesday], we have launched three operations per day and per constituency. There are 79 constituencies, so that means that we will do 240 operations every day in the competence areas of the police headquarters” , added Wednesday in Créteil Laurent Nunez, Paris police prefect.
On August 5, a 7-year-old child was seriously injured by an 18-year-old biker during an urban rodeo in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise). In Marseille, a 19 -year -old man died Tuesday evening in Marseille after losing control of his motorcycle and struck a post while he was doing an urban rodeo.