A hundred procedures opened since the beginning of the year to fight against urban rodeos in the Lyon area.
About fifteen motocross seized.
The authorities assured this Tuesday to take the bull by the horns.
"There is a strong judicial mobilization and, in a systematic way, the investigations are opened", supports the public prosecutor of Lyon, Nicolas Jacquet for whom, the penal response is "marked with the greatest firmness".
Since the beginning of January, 55 alleged perpetrators, adults and minors, have been referred.
26 of them, adults, were presented for immediate appearance and 20 prison sentences were pronounced, including 16 firm, detailed the prosecutor.
Since a 2018 law, the urban rodeo is an offense punishable by one year in prison and a fine of 15,000 euros, which has given a legal basis to the police to intervene.
The offense of inciting to commit a rodeo is punishable by two years in prison.
"Unacceptable phenomenon"
"It is not a Lyon phenomenon but a phenomenon that affects all major cities", underlines the prefect of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Pascal Mailhos, denouncing an "unacceptable phenomenon from the point of view of security and tranquility ”.
And to explain that, if the authors of rodeos are sometimes not arrested "immediately" for security reasons, "this is not why there is no follow-up", in particular thanks the operation of video surveillance.
"We hope to be able to extinguish the phenomenon when the authors understand that the risk is much greater than the few seconds of fame on social networks", for his part noted the mayor EELV of Lyon, Grégory Doucet.
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