A man of 18 years died in the night from Saturday to Sunday in a motorcycle accident-cross, in the vicinity of a police car.
bus Shelters vandalized, garbage burned… brief tension erupted Sunday night in Argenteuil, in the Val-d’oise, in the aftermath of the death of a young man of 18 in a motorcycle accident-cross in the vicinity of a police car. Deployed in numbers, the forces of order have, in particular, made use of tear gas to disperse small groups of people. Around midnight, the calm had returned but the area was still encircled by the forces of law and order.
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earlier in the day, the prosecutor of Pontoise opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the accident, which took place in the night from Saturday to Sunday when the young driver of the moto-cross has lost control of his machine and crashed into a power pole in a residential area of the city. He died of his injuries Sunday morning at the hospital of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, in Paris.
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“Any attempt to control or arrest”
At the time of the accident, a team of the Brigade, tasked with fighting crime (BAC) was travelling in the same residential area and has “crossed” the young man on his moto-cross, said a police source, which provides, however, that there has been no attempt to control or arrest.
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“The police had neither lamp nor sun visor of police and do not intend to control it but it may be that the young man identified them and panicked,” said this source. A version disputed by the inhabitants met in the afternoon and have accused the police of being responsible for the accident.
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A witness who is identified only by his first name, Abu, has said that “the bumper of the police car was rammed. It frightened him, that’s why it is mounted on the sidewalk, he stood in the road,” according to this young man who says he was down in the street at the time of the accident.
