After the scooter accident in La Duchère, evenings of urban violence followed in the Lyon metropolitan area, as here in Bron on March 10.

PHILIPPE DESMAZES -

AFP

The vital prognosis of the 13-year-old teenager, seriously injured on March 3 in a scooter accident in La Duchère (Lyon 9th), is no longer engaged.

The victim's older brother indeed indicated to

Progress

on

Sunday evening

that the young man had come out of a coma on Friday.

"He has to rest a lot but he is getting better and better," he says about him.

On March 10, a judicial investigation was opened by the Lyon prosecutor's office for "involuntary injuries resulting in an ITT of more than three months, aggravated by a hit-and-run offense and non-assistance to a person in danger".

Five days earlier, the public prosecutor of Lyon Nicolas Jacquet had seized the IGPN, the police, for an investigation "in search of the causes of the injuries" of the 13-year-old minor, which occurred following the accident. scooter, in a "concern for transparency and impartiality".

From March 3, testimonies from residents of La Duchère reported an unmarked police car pursuing the young man on a scooter.

This version, formally denied by the Rhône prefecture, was at the origin of several evenings of urban violence observed since in the urban agglomeration, in particular in La Duchère, Bron, Rillieux-la-Pape and Feyzin.

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