Vallauris residents between pain and anger after a little girl was hit by a motorbike

On the morning of Saturday, August 31, the inhabitants of Vallauris (Alpes-Maritimes) are still very moved when talking about Kamilya, the 7-year-old girl violently hit by a motorcycle on Thursday evening. “I feel sad and upset. A few days before the start of the school year, it breaks my heart. The little one, she didn’t ask for anything.”comments a local resident.

On Thursday evening, the little girl was knocked down while crossing the road on a pedestrian crossing. Very seriously injured, she was taken to hospital and put into an artificial coma, with a vital prognosis “very committed”the Grasse public prosecutor’s office said in a statement late Friday morning. The public prosecutor’s office emphasizes that “Investigations are continuing to establish the exact circumstances of the commission of the offence”.

In a Facebook post on Friday, the girl’s father said she would not survive her multiple injuries. “Unfortunately, Kamilya will not be returning to us. The doctors told us that there is no more hope. Blood has not been reaching the brain for a long time. Life is not fair. Nothing else to say.”he wrote.

Exasperated, local residents have put an online petition online to demand more security on the busy road in question. A kitty was also launched on Friday to help “this family devastated by injustice”She had collected more than 4,000 euros by Saturday afternoon.

The 19-year-old motorcyclist tested negative for alcohol and drugs. On Saturday, he was still in custody at the Antibes police station (Alpes-Maritimes), for “counts of unintentional injuries resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months through a manifestly deliberate violation of a specific obligation of safety or prudence, by the driver of a land motor vehicle,” the press release added.