Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Monday, August 8, increased surveillance of people performing urban rodeos and acts across France.criminals who come to seriously injure children“Like this weekend in Val d’Oise.
A 10-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy were seriously injured while playingpurchaseDuring the municipal rodeo in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise) on Friday night, a motorcycle crashed on the esplanade of their neighborhood.
“10,000 control actions”
“I mean, the government has a very strong hand, not against these urban rodeos, which are presented as a positive word, as if it’s a spectacle, but against these often criminal acts that come to kill, that seriously injure women, children, we saw it again recently in Val d’Oise“, the minister emphasized during his visit to Marseille. “I have asked the police and the national gendarmerie to step up this surveillance this August, and I hope that starting today, 10,000 surveillance operations will be carried out across the national territory to combat the criminal acts of people who get in their way.“, he added.
In a directive sent to prefects on Monday and consulted by AFP, the interior minister asks that the checks target “the most blatant axes“according to”dates and time slots“. He also orderscarry out systematic confiscation of used vehicles“, “optimize the use of video protection“and”detect storage locations» motorbikes or quads in collaboration with social landlords and city police.
On June 8, a 19-year-old young man died after being hit by a motorcycle during a city rodeo in Rennes. The minister defended his firm policy, reminding.that 8,000 operations were carried out by the police and gendarmerie in two months” In France. According to him, they led to 1200 arrests.never seen700 seizures of motorcycles, quads or cars. The 2018 law intensified the fight against this “rodeosvehicles and provides up to five years imprisonment for those guilty of them. Noting that “Parliament wants to strengthen the legislative arsenal and better sentencing“The authors, the minister mentioned that “favorable to the tightening of criminal measures“.
Source: Le Figaro
