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Motorcycle rodeos in cities exasperate, police remain powerless

5/3/2020, 5:02:33 PM


The police seem paralyzed to act, torn between instructions that are difficult to reconcile.

A week before the deconfinement, rodeos on motorbikes are still rotting the lives of residents of sensitive neighborhoods. "This is the absolute plague," recognizes a commissioner from the Paris police headquarters. According to him, "not a day goes by without the units deployed on the ground echoing this type of nuisance."

On April 18, a collision in Villeneuve-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine), between an offender on a motorcycle and a police vehicle, fueled a week-long cycle of urban violence. Mouldi C., 30, was perched on an unlicensed two-wheeler. He ran into a door of a vehicle of the anti-crime brigade (BAC) during his race, breaking his leg. However, the investigation seems to weaken the thesis of the police "blunder", which has been widely circulated on social networks.

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