A teenager was arrested and taken into custody after a nine-year-old girl had her foot crushed by a motorcycle on Wednesday evening in Pontoise (Val-d'Oise).
The young man is suspected of having been on the handlebars of the two-wheeler.
The victim was on the sidewalk when the biker who was practicing the urban rodeo swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle, witnesses told Le
Parisien
.
The victim was with his family.
The emergency services and the police were called.
The latter went in search of the biker and arrested the suspect shortly after.
He would have acknowledged the facts.
His motorcycle was seized, as was another two-wheeler found in the same place.
The little girl was taken to the hospital.
She underwent tests there that revealed a sprain.
She was able to return to her home.
A motorcycle in the middle of an urban rodeo had already injured two children in Pontoise on August 5th.
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