three young people perform an urban rodeo in a shopping center

Once through the automatic doors, the roar of the engines resounds between the walls of a shopping center in Orvault (Loire Atlantique)on April 21. In front of customers, the three bikers go up a conveyor belt before accelerating in the middle of the stores. An illegal urban rodeo that took place in a shopping mall near Nantes. A pharmacist says: “There are children, it’s school holidays, there are old people in the gallery, the gallery is not very wide so yes, I was afraid that they might have knocked someone down”.

Two years in prison for perpetrators acting in groups

Urban rodeos are on the rise. Their authors give themselves challenges on social networks. In Isère, two videos were posted three days apart as a response. In March alone, 300 perpetrators of urban rodeos were arrested. They incur one year in prison and two years if they act in a group.