A man "in his twenties" presented himself to the police on Friday evening, a few hours after another young man, concerning the death of an octogenarian struck by a motorcycle Thursday evening in Clermont-Ferrand, the city prosecutor's office said on Saturday.
This suspect, who went to the Clermont-Ferrand central police station, was immediately taken into custody, as is always the first young man, aged 19 and already known for traffic offenses when he was a minor, has he specified, confirming information from the regional daily
La Montagne
.
"Checks are underway", according to the same source, to determine the involvement and responsibility of this second person in the tragedy, involving the presence of two motorcycles at the time of the facts. Thursday, the facts occurred around 7:30 p.m. in the district of Croix-de-Neyrat, a large complex in the north of the city. A CCTV camera was able to film the scene. Two motorcycles were circulating on an avenue, one of which was doing a wheelie: the pilot drove only on the rear wheel, a practice popular with fans of urban rodeos.
Aged 81, the victim was struck while crossing the road on a protected passage, the light then being red for pedestrians, according to a police source.
Taken to hospital, the old lady died there around 10 p.m.
The driver had fled but the motorcycle was found burnt.
“The phenomenon of urban rodeos is not new.
It affects the whole of our country and rightly arouses the exasperation of the inhabitants.
Today, it strikes in a tragic way our city, had reacted on Twitter the mayor of Clermont-Ferrand Olivier Bianchi (PS).
Public Security is in charge of the investigation.
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