“No shock between the Bac vehicle and the scooter”, according to the prosecutor

The scooter accident following a refusal to comply cost the life of the 17-year-old passenger and injured the scooter driver on Friday evening in Chelles.

“It does not appear to me that there was a collision between the Bac vehicle and the scooter which would be the cause of the latter’s fall,” said the public prosecutor of Meaux on Sunday, November 10, after the scooter accident following a refusal to comply, Friday in Chelles (Seine-et-Marne), which cost the life of a 17-year-old teenager and injured the scooter driver, of the same age.

During a press conference, Jean-Baptiste Bladier recalled that the investigation was barely beginning. “More precise technical operations” must confirm or not this first result, he said.

Friday evening, uA chase took place over approximately two kilometers between Neuilly-sur-Marne, in Seine-Saint-Denis and Chelles, in Seine-et-Marne, after the anti-crime brigade (Bac) wanted “check a scooter whose driver had just run a red light”according to the prosecution.

Two open investigations

While the passenger of the scooter died on Saturday, the driver was seriously injured. His vital prognosis “is still engaged at this time”, the Meaux public prosecutor said on Sunday. He also claimed that the driver was “unknown to the police”. However, he did not have a driving license. The deceased passenger was known to the police for theft and drug use.

Two investigations were opened by the prosecution: one for refusal to comply, the other for homicide and unintentional injuries, entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), according to the prosecutor.