A live that stirred Twitter. A full live stream, content creator Altisplay, following a convergence of bikes, came across a most astonishing sight. EELV MP Sandrine Rousseau, in the middle of an altercation, trying to separate a cyclist and a taxi driver. “At the time, when I see her, I know it’s not just anyone because her face tells me something, says the one who calls himself Altis. But the situation is so grotesque that my brain doesn’t immediately make the connection. It took me a few seconds to realize that it was Sandrine Rousseau who, out of nowhere, intervened in a fight. »
From his 7-hour live on the Convergence Vélo event, during which all the cycling associations converge on the center of Paris, the web only retains these two minutes. Quickly, excerpts abound on the network. The creator and rights holder of this video are also trying to have as many of them removed as possible. “Many of these extracts were truncated and did not allow us to understand what really happened,” he explains. Eventually, he posts a longer version of the excerpt to his account, to give more context.
“I talk about it in the video I’m preparing for YouTube”
The content creator claims to have stopped at the level of the altercation to stay with the cyclist while the police intervened to control the driver. According to him, the cyclist would have stopped to let a pedestrian pass and the driver would have got angry, not understanding his sudden stop. “These are elements that have not yet been mentioned but I talk about them in my YouTube video,” he continues. The latter has indeed just posted a 13 minute video in the early afternoon. With better quality images and sound, he looks back on the altercation that took place on Sunday.
As for the member, she does not respond to requests from 20 minutes on this subject. Monday late afternoon, She still explained to Parisian that she was on her way to “do [ses] market shopping in the 13th arrondissement when [elle a] started to see an altercation on the road”. She told the newspaper that she “did what[elle] had to do, like any citizen”.
Both nevertheless take the opportunity to remind that such an incident could have been avoided with the presence of a cycle path and specialized facilities. “As I was following the Convergence, I noticed that every time cyclists and motorists were mixed on the road, it created tension,” adds Altis. Even if not all of them degenerate to this point… and you rarely see a member in the middle.