A total of 16,000 police operations have been carried out since January 2022, according to the Interior Ministry.
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The authorities want to show that they are acting. More than 2,200 people have been arrested and 1,800 scooters and motorcycles have been seized since the start of the year for urban rodeos, more than in 2021, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Wednesday August 17, in trip to Créteil (Val-de-Marne). A total of 16,000 police operations have been carried out since January 2022. In 2021, there were 9,800 checks, 1,345 arrests and 1,200 motorized vehicles seized, the minister said.
“It is not a policy of numbers, it is the activity of the police and gendarmerie services”he underlined during a visit to the police station in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), and “at the same time as we fight against rodeos, we fight against narcotics and we fight against stolen cars and motorcycles”.
On August 8, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced an intensification of controls throughout France against people performing urban rodeos. Since that date, more than 150 scooters and motorcycles have been seized during nearly 3,000 police and gendarmerie operations, the minister said on Twitter on Tuesday, ensuring that as of Wednesday “Each police station would carry out at least three anti-rodeo operations a day”.
On August 5, a 7-year-old child was seriously injured by an 18-year-old motorcyclist during an urban rodeo in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise). In Marseille, a 19-year-old young man died on Tuesday evening after losing control of his motorcycle and hitting a pole while doing an urban rodeo.