One of the children suffers from broken bones, the other has a serious head injury. A man presented himself at the Cergy police station.
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Two children were injured during an urban rodeo, Friday August 5, in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise), twenty kilometers northwest of Paris. A motocross hit a boy and a girl, both aged around ten, around 9:30 p.m. in the Hauts de Marcouville district, France Television learned from the police on Saturday, confirming information from the Parisian. The boy suffers from a broken tibia and fibula and the girl is seriously injured in the head.
After the fact, the driver fled, before the motorcycle was found by young residents of the neighborhood. An 18-year-old young man from the neighborhood finally showed up on Saturday afternoon with his lawyer.at the Cergy police station, according to information from France Télévisions. The suspect is known to police for driving without a license.
Since the beginning of April, 534 interventions have been recorded for urban rodeos in the Val-d’Oise department. Thirty-seven people were arrested and 34 motorcycles were seized, according to figures from the departmental directorate of public security (DDSP).
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