Motorcycles that backfire at all hours of the day … and night. Urban rodeos can be hell for residents of certain neighborhoods. And this is a real danger. Two children were also seriously injured in Pontoise, in the Paris region, on Friday August 5. The motocross rider who knocked down the victims ended up being arrested. The reaction of the Minister of the Interior was immediate: 10,000 checks throughout the month of August to curb this scourge.
In Berry, many police operations have already been carried out for several years. They will continue in the coming weeks.. And that could reassure the inhabitants annoyed by these rodeos. In the Gibjoncs district, in Bourges, there are many testimonies. Nacera was walking with her one-year-old daughter. “There was someone coming quickly on the pedestrian lane. It scares me very much, they do anything”, she says at the microphone of France Bleu Berry. The dangerousness of these urban rodeos no longer needs to be proven. “It can kill, it can hurt someone. It really scares me. Being a parent, I can’t stand it”adds Isabelle.
Harden the tone against the perpetrators of these urban rodeos
In Indre, deputy François Jolivet also spoke on the subject. On his Twitter account, he expressed his desire to experiment with a technique to arrest completely unconscious motorcyclists. He takes theexample of the London police who can crash into motorcycles at low speed to neutralize individuals. “This prevents individuals from entering pedestrian areas. We need more tactical tools for our police officers”writes the deputy of the presidential majority.