More than 2,200 people have been arrested and 1,800 scooters and motorcycles have been seized since the start of the year for urban rodeos, more than in 2021, the Minister of the Interior announced on Wednesday August 16 on the move to Créteil.
A total of 16,000 police operations have been carried out since January 2022. In 2021, there were 9,800 checks, 1,345 arrests and 1,200 motorized vehicles seized, the minister said.
“
It is not a policy of figures, it is the activity of the police and gendarmerie services
”, he underlined during a visit to the police station in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), and “
at the same while we are fighting rodeos, we are fighting narcotics and we are fighting stolen cars and motorcycles
".
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On August 8, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced an intensification of controls throughout France against people performing urban rodeos.
Since that date, more than 150 scooters and motorcycles have been seized during nearly 3,000 police and gendarmerie operations, the minister said on Twitter on Tuesday, assuring that from this Wednesday "
each police station would carry out at least three anti-rodeo operations per day
”.
“
Since yesterday (Tuesday), we have launched three operations per day and per constituency.
There are 79 constituencies, so that means that we will carry out 240 operations every day in the areas of competence of the police
headquarters, ”added Wednesday to Créteil Laurent Nuñez, prefect of police of Paris.
On August 5, a seven-year-old child was seriously injured by an 18-year-old biker during an urban rodeo in Pontoise (Val-d'Oise).
In Marseille, a 19-year-old young man died Tuesday evening in Marseille after losing control of his motorcycle and hitting a pole while doing an urban rodeo.