The Minister of the Interior reacted to the accident on Friday evening in the Val-d’Oise, who seriously injured two children.
Le Monde with AFP
Gérald Darmanin, announced on Monday August 8, an intensification of controls throughout France against people carrying out urban rodeos, after an accident this weekend. A 10 -year -old girl and an 11 -year -old boy were seriously injured, while playing “cat” on the esplanade in their neighborhood, after being overthrown on Friday evening by a motorcycle during an urban rodeo in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise).
“I mean that the government has an extremely firm hand against not these urban rodeos that we present as a positive word, as if it was a spectacle, but against these often criminal acts that come to kill, which come very seriously women, children, as we have seen very recently in the Val-d’Oise, “said the Minister of the Interior during a visit to Marseille.
“I asked the police and the national gendarmerie for this month of August the intensification of these controls and I hope that there are 10,000 control operations from today on everything The national territory to fight against these criminal acts of people who take the road for their journey, “he added.
” better condemn “
The Minister defended his firmness policy by recalling “that there have been 8,000 operations by the police and the gendarmerie” in France for two months. They ended, according to him, by 1,200 arrests, “unheard of”, and 700 seizures of motorcycles, quads or cars.
A 2018 law strengthened the fight against these motorized races and provides for sentences of up to five years in prison for their authors. Noting that “the Parliament wishes to strengthen the legislative arsenal and be able to better condemn” the authors, the Minister stressed being “favorable to the worsening of criminal means”.
The injured girl on Friday presents “a head trauma”. She was transported to Necker hospital in Paris, and operated on Saturday. “If this child remains alive, she will have heavy neurological sequelae,” added the prosecution. The boy has a fracture of the lumber. He was first transported to Pontoise hospital, but his condition deteriorated and was helicoptered to Amiens hospital. His condition has now been “stabilized”, but he also underwent “traumatic amnesia”.
In Val-d’Oise, since the beginning of April, 534 interventions have been identified for urban rodeos. Thirty-seven people were arrested and 34 motorcycles were seized, according to figures from the Departmental Directorate of Public Security. On June 8, in Rennes, a 19 -year -old young man died after being struck by a motorcycle during an urban rodeo.