He is one of the thousands of cyclists who ride every day on the coronapiste of Avenue de Fontainebleau in the Kremlin-Bicêtre, the busiest in Ile-de-France.
But he is the only one to have finished KO and on the ground Thursday after having taken it.
A cyclist announced that he was going to file a complaint against a taxi driver after being assaulted on this cycle development, created like others during confinement, in particular to compensate for public transport.
Hit several times
This assault, revealed by France Bleu, took place while the cyclist in question did not hesitate on Thursday to remind a taxi driver who was traveling on the coronapist of the D 7 that it was reserved for cyclists.
To make him understand this, while he was at a standstill, this young man seized one of the studs which delimit the coronapiste from the road to position it behind him.
Not enough to stop the taxi which rolled on the block in question before hitting the cyclist for the first time.
The latter then kicked the car before being hit again and strangled by the driver, according to his story, until he fell unconscious.
The driver fled before being arrested in Villejuif.
According to our information, he was finally released with a summons.
Hospitalized, the cyclist gets by with seven days of ITT.
"Not the necessary security guarantees"
A “deplorable accident” for the mayor (MRC - GRS) of the Kremlin-Bicêtre Jean-Luc Laurent who, like other elected officials of the department, took a stand to ask for “another solution” to allow the cohabitation of cyclists and cars and others vehicles.
"What happened confirms that this track does not offer the necessary security guarantees", reacts the elected official.
He made it known to the departmental council with whom a "meeting" should take place.
On September 8, several associations of cyclists met on avenue de Fontainebleau to ask for the perpetuation of the coronapist.
LP / Lucile Métout
In recent days, he has responded favorably to the request of the mayors of Créteil and Saint-Maur-des-Fossés who have asked him to remove the sanitary cycle paths on the D 19 and the D 86, because they generate too much caps for too few bikes.
For the time being, the avenue de Fontainebleau track “is maintained”, explains Jean-Luc Laurent, who specifies having made “other proposals”.
An "unthinkable" deletion
Ten days ago, about fifty people representing several cycling associations were mobilized to demand the perpetuation of the coronapist of the Kremlin-Bicêtre, deeming its removal "unthinkable".
They had then inaugurated a "dummy totem for counting bikes with record numbers of attendance", according to them "5,000 users per day" since mid-May.
On October 4, several are scheduled to take part in an outing in Val-de-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis aimed at testing existing cycle routes there, a sort of “life-size” test to determine the places that constitute black spots.