Nearly 3,000 anti-urban rodeo operations in one week – Sud Ouest

In total, since August 8, 14,000 law enforcement officers have checked 42,165 people, made 338 arrests and seized 157 vehicles, according to the results of the operations. The minister had announced an intensification of checks after a girl was seriously injured in Val-d’Oise. “As of tomorrow (this Wednesday), each police station will carry out at least three anti-rodeo operations per day. Controversial practice In early August, a drama had put this phenomenon back in the center of the news: a seven-year-old child had been seriously injured during an urban rodeo in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise), where the 18-year-old motorcyclist had first fled before going to the police station the next day. This young man was indicted and imprisoned on August 8. With a head trauma, the girl came out of a coma, the family lawyer announced on Monday. Previously, on June 8, during an urban rodeo in Rennes, a 19-year-old man died after being hit by a motorcycle.