The 18-year-old man who died on Sunday in a motocross accident in Argenteuil, in the Val-d'Oise, was not chased by the police car, the Pontoise prosecutor's office said on Monday. “Expertise in accidentology has already been commissioned. The first conclusions confirm the absence of a shock between the police vehicle and the motorcycle. ”
An investigation had been opened Sunday by the prosecution to determine the circumstances of the accident which took place on the night of Saturday to Sunday, when the driver, without helmet, of a motocross struck a concrete electric pole located on a sidewalk in a suburban area of the city. The victim died "following a craniofacial trauma due to the shock against the concrete post", Sunday morning at the Paris hospital of Pitié-Salpêtrière, specifies the parquet floor.
"Risk of loss of evidence"
Lawyers for the victim's family, Me Camille Vannier and Lucie Simon, warn that "there is a risk of loss of evidence, while the scene of the accident has not been frozen and the debris is still lying there Sabri's scooter. " They claim "the exploitation of radio communications from the various teams of the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) but also from those of the police and rescue" and indicate that "that a complaint will be filed in the coming days".
According to BAC Ermont police officers who were patrolling Argenteuil and driving on the street where the accident took place, "they noticed a motocross-type motorcycle moving towards them at high speed", indicates the floor. The street being narrow, the driver of the motorbike "would have moved to the sidewalk to continue on his way". The sidewalk borrowed by the victim is also "narrow and strewn with obstacles", he struck one of the posts, continues the prosecution.
Sunday evening, brief scuffles broke out in Argenteuil in the neighborhood where the victim is from. Cars and garbage cans were set on fire and bus shelters were ransacked.
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