Friday evening around 11:15 p.m., an illegally organized car race in the Bordeaux-Lac commercial area turned tragic. On Professor Darget Street, many spectators were gathered on the side of the road to watch the “run” but “in a left turn, the driver of a Citroën C3 vehicle” mowed down “several onlookers posted on the edge of the road. floor”, explained Frédérique Porterie, the public prosecutor of Bordeaux in a press release issued this Saturday, after this urban rodeo. 20 minutes takes stock of this urban rodeo accident, while the mayor of Bordeaux said that “the public authorities” would “continue to act firmly” against these “deadly activities”.
What do we know about the injured?
According to official information, the accident during this urban rodeo would have caused six victims evacuated by the firefighters, including a 17-year-old minor. The state of health of two of them is considered worrying, without it yet being known to which ITT (total incapacity for work) correspond to their injuries. “Requisitions were made to the hospital (Bordeaux University Hospital) to obtain information on their state of health,” said the prosecutor.
Jeanne, 18, who is one of the four “slightly” injured testified to BFM TV of the violence of the accident, explaining that she was thrown “five meters further” during the impact. Wounded in the leg and hip, she says she could not move once on the ground, and that witnesses carried her in the grass until help arrived.
Who are the people arrested?
An investigation on behalf of “aggravated involuntary injuries”, in particular by the “hit and run” of the driver of the C3, has been opened. “The driver of the vehicle fled but, pursued by witnesses who ended up blocking him in the town of Bassens, he was arrested along with three other passengers by the police services requested by the spectators”, specified the prosecution in his statement.
The four people arrested were taken into police custody in order to determine the exact circumstances of this accident. The main suspect is 32 years old and lives in Carbon-Blanc, in Gironde. The passengers are younger, aged 31, 22 and 20.
What is the reaction of the mayor of Bordeaux?
“I think first of all of the injured, wishing them the best possible recovery,” reacted Pierre Hurmic in a press release. The mayor of Bordeaux castigated the danger posed to human lives by these unauthorized races on public roads. And to add: “The public authorities, already mobilized to put an end to these practices which, repressed in one district, are transported to another, will continue to act with firmness. It is the responsibility of everyone, actor or spectator, to turn away from these deadly activities before even more serious tragedies occur. »