A 17-year-old teenager died on Saturday morning in hospital following a scooter accident, which took place Friday evening in Chelles (Seine-et-Marne) after the driver of the two-wheeler refused to move. arrested on the orders of the police, said the Meaux prosecutor. The young person killed in the accident is the passenger of the two-wheeler whose driver, also aged 17, was still hospitalized on Saturday evening, with his life threatening, according to information transmitted by the Meaux public prosecutor’s office.
“It appears that there was no contact between the scooter and the BAC vehicle”
The facts occurred around 11:00 p.m. Friday in the eastern suburbs of Paris, when a crew from the anti-crime brigade (BAC) of Neuilly-sur-Marne (Seine-Saint-Denis) tried to control a scooter which had just run through a fire red, said the public prosecutor of Meaux. Arriving in the town of Chelles, the driver slipped on the road and the scooter “crashed under a vehicle stopped at the traffic light”, details the public prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier in his press release .
The two young people then found themselves trapped under the car, “one of the two – probably the passenger – losing his helmet under the violence of the impact”, added the magistrate. According to the first elements of the investigation, established in particular through the use of video surveillance, “it seems that there was no contact between the scooter and the BAC vehicle”, indicates the press release. The two teenagers, suffering multiple trauma and in cardiorespiratory arrest, were transported to Parisian hospitals, according to a police source, who specified that the passenger died Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m.
Two investigations were opened by the Meaux public prosecutor’s office
During the night from Friday to Saturday, the parents of the victims, worried, presented themselves at the Chelles police station, reported a second police source. “Security has been put in place with departmental staff” in Vaires-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne), the town where the two teenagers live, and in the surrounding area, but the situation has remained “calm” since the accident, according to a police source.
The authorities have not planned a specifically reinforced law enforcement system for the night from Saturday to Sunday in Neuilly-sur-Marne, but “particular vigilance” will be ensured in this sector, indicated a second police source. The Meaux public prosecutor’s office has opened two investigations, according to the prosecutor. The first, for refusal to comply, was entrusted to the Chelles-Villeparisis police station. The second, on counts of homicide and involuntary injuries, will be carried out by the Parisian delegation of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the “police of police”.
The Paris police headquarters stressed to AFP that “in accordance with the instructions” of police prefect Laurent Nuñez, “the police informed the command room of the vehicle’s refusal to comply” and that they then initiated his “care”. Several young people have died in recent months in France after chases with the police. On the night of October 6 to 7, a 23-year-old young man died in a scooter accident while being pursued by municipal police officers in Saint-Priest (Rhône).
Two months earlier, on the night of August 5 to 6, in Limoges, two young people riding a scooter died after hitting a vehicle while trying to escape a police check. These two deaths in Limoges came a little more than a month after the death, at the end of June, of Nahel, 17, killed by police shooting during a road check in Nanterre. His death triggered several nights of very intense urban violence in the country.