The images were first broadcast on the social network TikTok, before being taken up by BFMTV. On April 21, several individuals filmed themselves during a motocross rodeo in the gallery of the Orvault Grand Val shopping center, on the outskirts of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique). On Tuesday, May 9, one of the men identified in the video was tried and sentenced to twelve months in prison under an electronic bracelet. Identified by the investigators, the mis en cause had been remanded in custody on Sunday before being judged in immediate appearance. He was sentenced to ten months in prison and had a previous two-month reprieve revoked.
This 20-year-old mechanic refused to give the identity of the three other people who participated in the rodeo. “It was a big mistake, the result of the group effect,” he explained in a calm tone. The pilots of the three motorized machines had left from the underground parking lot of the shopping center before driving in the middle of the shops of the shopping mall. “I wasn’t working that day, I went out to join some friends to do some motorcycling. We like the motorcycle but not hurt people or hit children, ”said the man, explaining” having driven in step “in the gallery.
Other facts filmed in Echirolles
Other similar facts had already occurred in Echirolles (Isère) a few days earlier. “I had no intention of reproducing anything,” replied the respondent. The public prosecutor has identified 399 operations to fight rodeos in the Nantes district in 2022 and 143 since the start of 2023. “It was not a moment of fun but an offense which endangers the users of the road and a shopping center”, pointed out the magistrate.