the worrying figures of a scourge that takes root

Particularly affected by the scourge, the department of Val-d’Oise, where this latest tragedy occurred, has been, since the beginning of April, the scene of 534 police interventions targeting wild rodeos. Sebastien SORIANO/Le Figaro

LE FIGARO INFO – While a girl hit on Friday in Pontoise is fighting against death, Gérald Darmanin announces 10,000 control operations from today throughout the national territory.

The fatal chronicle of wild rodeos, these high-risk mechanical parades, has just been enriched by a tragic episode. The latter features two children hit by a driver, including a little girl between life and death. The tragedy took place on Friday evening, when the little victim, aged 10, and an 11-year-old friend were playing cat and mouse, at the foot of the towers in the Hauts de Marcouville district, in Pontoise. Around 9:15 p.m., a motorcyclist hit them head-on before fleeing. Aged 18, he showed up the next day, in the early afternoon, at the police station with his lawyer and admitted the facts. The girl, who suffers from a very serious head trauma, was operated on Saturday at the Necker hospital. “If this child remains alive, she will have serious neurological sequelae“, Specified the parquet floor of Pontoise. The boy has a fractured tibia and fibula. “His condition has stabilized“, Continues this source. He also sufferedtraumatic amnesia

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