Ten days after announcing an intensification of the control of wild rodeos throughout the territory, with in particular the desire to carry out some 10,000 checks to stem the scourge, Gérald Darmanin assures this Tuesday on Twitter that 2,914 anti-rodeo operations have been carried out in seven days.
In addition, the Minister of the Interior specifies that these operations resulted in the arrest of 338 individuals as well as 157 seizures.
And the host of Beauvau to reaffirm in his tweet his commitment to the repression of wild rodeos, while in recent weeks, several of them have seriously injured or even killed people: "
I have given instructions to further intensify our action.
From tomorrow, each police station will carry out at least 3 anti-rodeo operations per day.
I will do everything to protect honest people against these delinquents
”.
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On August 5, an 18-year-old young man traveling at high speed on a motocross in the Hauts de Marcouville district of Pontoise hit a 7-year-old girl head-on as well as a 11 years old who was at his side.
The latter had a fractured leg and suffered
“traumatic amnesia”
.
The young girl was in a coma, between life and death, victim of a head trauma, until the announcement on Monday of her lawyer, indicating that she had woken up and that her condition had "
improved
".
A collateral victim of a rodeo, a 27-year-old Afghan was also shot and killed on Sunday August 14 in Colmar, Europe district, after protesting against the noise pollution caused by this practice.
An altercation followed with the driver of the car, who ended up leaving the scene to return shortly after and shoot the victim before fleeing.
The Colmar prosecutor, Catherine Sorita-Minard, opened a judicial investigation on Monday, with referral to an examining magistrate on the count of
"assassination against X"
, specifying that "the author or authors are on the run".
