two children seriously injured, a man in custody
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Two children aged 10 and 11 were knocked down Friday evening by a motorcycle during an urban rodeo in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise) and are seriously injured. An 18-year-old man admitted to being the driver of the machine and was taken into custody, the Pontoise public prosecutor’s office reported on Saturday August 6.
The facts took place on Friday around 9:15 p.m. when the two children, “a 10-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy were playing tag” on an esplanade, in the Hauts de Marcouville district, in Pontoise, detailed the departmental directorate of public security (DDSP) of Val-d’Oise.
The two children were hit by a motorcyclist who fled. The next day, in the early afternoon, the young man, from the same neighborhood as the victims, went to the police station with his lawyer and “acknowledged the facts”said the prosecution.
“Heavy consequences”
The girl presents “head trauma”. She was taken to Necker Hospital in Paris and operated on Saturday. “If this child stays alive, she will have serious neurological sequelae”added the prosecution.
The boy has a tibia-fibula fracture. He was first transported to Pontoise hospital but his condition deteriorated and was airlifted to Amiens hospital. His condition is now stabilized”, but he also suffered “traumatic amnesia”.
According to Franck Lebas, departmental secretary of the police union SGP Police Val-d’Oise, interviewed by BFM TVthe motorcycle was “hidden” after the fact and “has not yet been found”. An investigation was opened for involuntary injury aggravated by the hit and run and was entrusted to the Cergy-Pontoise police station.
In the department of Val-d’Oise since the beginning of April, 534 interventions have been recorded for urban rodeos. Thirty-seven people were arrested and 34 motorcycles were seized, according to figures from the DDSP. On June 8, a 19-year-old young man died after being hit by a motorcycle during an urban rodeo in Rennes.
A law of 2018 strengthening the law against motorized rodeos provides for penalties of up to five years in prison for their perpetrators.
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