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A young man was injured during the night from Friday to Saturday in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), after colliding with a municipal police vehicle while he was performing acrobatics on a motorcycle.
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Around 1 a.m. at 60, avenue de Stalingrad, police officers from the anti-crime brigade were called to deal with an accident as tempers flared.
Firefighters provide first aid to a young man.
This motorcyclist is conscious, but he suffers from an open fracture in his leg and pelvis.
The injured person was transported by Samu to the Beaujon hospital in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine), with no life-threatening situation.
Investigators are trying to collect testimony to understand what happened.
The police currently have two different versions concerning the circumstances of the accident.
Two versions conflict on the causes of the accident
Municipal police officers claim that the driver of the motorcycle lost control of his vehicle before crashing into the right front door of their vehicle.
Witnesses and friends of the victim state that the police instead hit the motorcycle while cutting off its path.
The cameras cannot corroborate one version over the other.
In fact, the municipal video protection system would not have filmed the scene.
Furthermore, the police vehicle would not be equipped with an on-board camera, nor would the officers who were on board.
Investigators from the Saint-Denis police station are responsible for shedding light on this matter.