Clément Bargain, edited by Gauthier Delomez
modified to
6:30 p.m., August 08, 2022
The 18-year-old young man who admitted to having hit two children with his motorcycle in Pontoise in the Val d’Oise was indicted on Monday and placed in detention. The individual went to the police station the day after the accident. His lawyer, however, refutes the participation in an urban rodeo.
Three days after violently hitting a little boy and a little girl in Pontoise in the Val d’Oise, the 18-year-old biker was indicted on Monday for intentional violence resulting in an ITT of more than three months. He admitted to having mowed down the two children while he was riding a motocross without a driving license on the esplanade of the Hauts Marcouville district. But the young man denies any participation in an urban rodeo.
Why it wasn’t a rodeo, according to the biker’s lawyer
“In reality, it is an accident of someone who used a motorcycle when he did not have a license”, explains his lawyer, Me Georges Parastatis, at the microphone of Europe 1. “A rodeo, that suppose races. There was no race, no participants. There was none of that. The fact of having said that it was a rodeo, without even knowing the evidence, or what there is in the file, on the part of certain politicians was neither more nor less than to put themselves in the front of the stage”, reacts the lawyer of the young biker.
Me Georges Parastatis indicates that his client is devastated by this accident and that he wishes to collaborate with justice. The young man has been remanded in custody and will be presented to a liberty and detention judge on Thursday to find out if he will remain incarcerated until the trial, which should be held in the coming months.