They surrendered to police on Thursday morning and were immediately taken into custody. Aged 16, the two teenagers are suspected of having knocked down an 84-year-old woman on Wednesday March 22 while riding a scooter in the popular district of Pontanézen, in Brest (Finistère). The victim was deceased.
According to the police, the two teenagers were riding a “big cylinder” two-wheeler when they fatally knocked down the octogenarian. “The rescue team arrived on the scene could only note the death of the victim at 5:15 p.m.,” said the public prosecutor Camille Miansoni. Heard on Wednesday evening, several witnesses said that the motorcycle ridden by the two young people “was traveling at very high speed”. “The old lady was crossing the road on the crosswalk. She was thrown by the shock and the motorcycle continued on its way without stopping, ”explained the Brest prosecutor.
The prosecutor confirmed the opening of an investigation by the departmental security which “will have to determine the precise circumstances of the accident and the possible respective role of each of the defendants”. The two suspects would be “unfavorably known” to the police, according The Telegram.