The news is reassuring.
A little more than ten days after the violent accident in Pontoise (Val-d'Oise) during a wild rodeo, the seven-year-old victim came out of a coma on Monday August 15,
the lawyer told
Le Figaro
on Tuesday. of the family.
"His condition has improved
," says Me Raphaël Cabral.
On August 5, an 18-year-old young man traveling at high speed on a motocross in the Hauts de Marcouville district, in Pontoise, had hit the young girl and an 11-year-old boy head-on. who was next to him.
The latter had a fractured leg and suffered
“traumatic amnesia”
.
As for the little girl, she suffered from a head trauma.
Rushed to the Necker hospital in Paris, with a vital prognosis, she underwent an operation on August 6, the day after the accident.
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Her state of health had hardly improved the following week and the Pontoise public prosecutor's office then confirmed that her vital prognosis was still engaged, and that she risked retaining
"heavy neurological sequelae"
.
The alleged perpetrator had fled shortly after the accident before surrendering to the police the following day.
He has since been indicted and imprisoned for “
involuntary injuries resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months
” aggravated by two circumstances, the hit and run and the breach of security obligations.
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In response to this umpteenth accident caused by an urban rodeo, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced on August 7 10,000 control operations throughout the national territory to stem the scourge.
And the host of Beauvau to denounce “
criminal acts of people who take the road for their road.
»
Particularly affected, the department of Val-d'Oise has been, since the beginning of April, the scene of 534 police interventions targeting wild rodeos, as
Le Figaro
revealed to you on August 7.
A total of 37 people were arrested and 34 machines seized.