A 23-year-old man should be tried on Monday August 28, he is suspected of having injured two police officers during an anti-urban rodeo operation on the night of Saturday to Sunday, according to information from franceinfo from the prosecution. The two officials were trying to arrest the suspect on the handlebars of a motocross in Massy (Essonne), when the man tried to flee the two agents of the Anti-Crime Squad. He then hit them. The two police officers ended up overpowering the driver who was taken into custody.
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 said on August 17. On August 8, he announced an intensification of controls throughout France against people performing urban rodeos.