the pedestrian died, the driver’s police custody was lifted

The young man broke during an urban rodeo on Sunday in Rennes is dead, the public prosecutor of Rennes announced on Wednesday June 8 to France Bleu Armorique. The investigation has been reclassified and is now open for “manslaughter”. The driver’s custody was lifted for medical reasons.

The 19-year-old victim was in cardio-respiratory arrest and suffered from head trauma and internal bleeding after being hit in the back by a motorcycle driven by a friend. The young man had been resuscitated on the spot by the emergency services then hospitalized in intensive care with a vital prognosis.

The driver of the two-wheeler, also injured during the accident, was taken into custody on Wednesday, three days after the incident, but his custody was quickly lifted due to his state of health. “which does not allow this measure to be continued”, continues Philippe Astruc, the public prosecutor of Rennes. He suffers from a broken tibia and head trauma and is still hospitalized.

The shock occurred on Sunday during a “rear wheel” of the motorcycle which was traveling at high speed in a parking lot on the Beaulieu university campus in Rennes. A six-year-old child was also slightly injured and briefly hospitalized. He found himself “sitting, it seems, on the handlebars” of the motorcycle, the prosecutor said on Monday.

The police have still not found the vehicle involved, according to France Bleu Armorique. The motorcycle had disappeared when they arrived, “taken by friends of the defendant and the victim”according to the Rennes prosecutor.