The young man, from the neighborhood where the events took place on Friday evening, went to the police on Saturday with his lawyer at the Cergy police station.
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He admitted the facts. An 18-year-old young man, who confessed to having knocked down and seriously injured two children, aged 10 and 11, was indicted and remanded in custody on Monday August 8, learned France Télévisions from the prosecutor of Pontoise (Val -d’Oise), confirming information from Parisian. And this for “involuntary injuries resulting in total incapacity for work greater than three months aggravated by at least two circumstances”, the “hit and run” and the “deliberate breach of an obligation of caution”, specifies the magistrate to France Télévisions.
The facts took place in Pontoise on Friday evening, in the Hauts de Marcouville district, around 9:30 p.m. The little girl, whose vital prognosis was then engaged, presented “head trauma” and was operated on Saturday. “If this child stays alive, she will have serious neurological sequelae”, had specified the parquet floor of the city. As for the boy, he suffers from a fracture of the tibia fibula and also underwent “traumatic amnesia”.
Reacting to the tragedy, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin asked for a “intensification of controls” .