Police officers and gendarmes must be able to experiment with the use of drones to better identify the authors of urban rodeos, recommended Wednesday two deputies, responsible for evaluating the 2018 law aimed at combating the phenomenon.
Since August 3, 2018, the law punishes participation in an urban rodeo with a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a fine of 15,000 euros.
But it did not allow "to stop" these nuisances, which sometimes lead to "tragedies", note the deputies Robin Reda (LR) and Natalia Pouzyreff (LREM), co-rapporteurs of the parliamentary mission.
At the end of August, a 75-year-old woman died in Toulouse after being struck by a 25-year-old biker during an urban rodeo.
"In the fight against motorized rodeos, airborne cameras could constitute an effective alternative to the pursuit of delinquents", write the two parliamentarians, among 17 other recommendations.
The use of drones would encourage arrests
Police officers, police officers and gendarmes have indeed for instructions to engage a continuation only in the event of “serious crimes”, for authors “likely to endanger the life of others”, and to privilege the arrests “deferred”. , in particular by raising the license plate. "These instructions lead, in practice, to an almost systematic ban on prosecuting the perpetrators of motorized rodeos", explains the report, relaying the words of police unions.
The use of drones would promote arrests "by considerably limiting the risks associated with the pursuit of the vehicle on the ground, while representing a means of proof useful to the success of judicial investigations", estimate the two co-rapporteurs, who interviewed about fifty people. The two deputies want this measure to be introduced in the bill on criminal liability and internal security, discussed from September 14 in the law committee at the National Assembly.
This text provides for "improving the legal framework" of the use of drones by the police after the censorship last May by the Constitutional Council of a large part of the article on this subject in the comprehensive security bill.
In the current wording of the bill, "the use of airborne cameras is particularly restricted" and excludes the fight against rodeos, regretted the parliamentarians, who demand that the "legal framework" be "completed".
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