The deconfinement and the mild weather have reinvigorated fans of urban rodeos. Not a week goes by without one deploring these incessant back and forth movements of two-wheelers, launched at excessive speed, without the most basic precautions.
To fight against this scourge, the authorities have decided to toughen up the tone. In a month and a half, six devices were seized by the police in Yvelines: all were taken this week to a car junkyard where they were destroyed, crushed by a crusher.
"From the moment when the procedure to limit motocross will be followed by the facts, in particular from a legal point of view, this gives us more propensity to intervene", comments Olivier Bonnefond, the ministry officer public in Yvelines, which works under the authority of the public prosecutor.
Member of the constituency of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Natalia Pouzyreff (LREM) had fought in this direction by proposing a law, which entered into force in the summer of 2018, which gives a legislative arsenal to the police. Since then, the urban rodeo has been punishable by 2 years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros.
Gear without plate or serial number
"There were several ways of acting to fight against this phenomenon, we chose to categorize this contravention in class 4. An identified individual cannot thus dispute the facts", confides the commissioner, who deals with the contraventions in the department.
In this way, the policeman was able to send to the scrapping the six machines - five motocross and a quad - which could not be identified, due to the absence of license plates and serial numbers, often erased. with lime. Half were seized in a hall of building of Chanteloup-les-Vignes and the rest, in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, during wild rodeos.
If "the trend is lull", according to the commissioner, the deserted roads have attracted many amateurs during confinement. 337 infractions were noted during this period in Ile-de-France.
Seizure, "the easiest way to prevent them from starting over"
Last week, two young people of 17 and 18 having fun on motocross in the district of Bel-Air, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, were arrested and imprisoned after being spotted by the CCTV cameras of the city.
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Another 21-year-old, pinned on Snapchat, was arrested in Les Mureaux for "driving a vehicle compromising the safety or tranquility of users", "refusal to comply" and "endangering the lives of others".
More than 39,000 interventions for wild rodeos have been carried out by law enforcement in Ile-de-France over the past two years, resulting in 672 convictions.
Natalia Pouzyreff, charged by the former Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner to set up an anti-rodeo plan, wants to go further. For her, the confiscation of motorcycles, quads or scooters used must be systematic. "This is the easiest way to prevent them from starting over," pleads the member.