A 16-year-old young man, who was traveling on a motocross, died after being violently hit on Wednesday September 6 by a police car. The teenager was then pursued by another police vehicle following a refusal to comply. The IGPN has been seized.
On the run after refusing to comply, late Wednesday, September 6, a 16-year-old young man who was riding a motocross between Maurepas and Elancourt, in the Yvelines department, was violently hit by a second police vehicle at a intersection, relays Le Parisien. The facts took place in the New Horizons district, around 6:20 p.m., according to franceinfo. The Versailles prosecutor’s office, echoed by BFM TV, finally announced at 11 p.m. Wednesday evening that the teenager had died.
Earlier in the evening, Le Parisien reported that the young man had been seriously injured. Around 7:30 p.m., his condition was deemed “desperate”, our colleagues still reported. And this, despite the rapid intervention of the emergency services. It must be said that when they arrived, the teenager, who we do not know if he was wearing a helmet or not, was in cardiopulmonary arrest. Resuscitated at the scene of the accident, he was then taken to Beaujon Hospital, in Clichy, in the Hauts-de-Seine, where he finally died.
The police force, the IGPN, was seized in stride. Prior to the teenager’s death, two investigations had been opened, one for unintentional injuries by driver and the other for refusal to comply. Le Parisien also reported that two police officers were taken into custody. The Versailles prosecutor’s office specifies that those in custody are the drivers of the two police vehicles.
On Wednesday evening, the exact circumstances of the accident still remained to be clarified. The fact that the first police car, the one following the young man, had been contacted by radio to arrest him seems certain. However, several elements remain unclear at this stage. There is little information about why the second police vehicle, the one that hit the scooter, was at the intersection. Was the crew returning from another intervention? Was he just in the wrong place at the wrong time? “He could have hit the car of an individual or other. It’s a total coincidence,” said a source with the Parisian. For its part, the IGPN does not exclude any track.
