Two police officers were injured while trying to arrest the author of an urban rodeo in Massy, in the Essonne department, on his motocross, and were "dragged a few meters", said this Sunday a police source, confirming information from Actu17, a news site of miscellaneous facts.
The two agents of the Anti-Crime Squad (Bac) of Palaiseau, "are not seriously injured" but suffer from "muscular pain and dermabrasions", further specified this same source.
The suspect flees
Called by residents in the night from Saturday to Sunday a little before midnight for an urban rodeo, the officials approach the motocross and its driver, then stopped.
But he "does not let it go", "struggles" and flees, injuring the police who are trying to arrest him, reports the source.
“Hostile individuals, potentially a dozen, are approaching” then Bac agents.
Coming to reinforce their colleagues, police crews use a tear gas canister to disperse them.
The 23-year-old motocross driver was arrested, placed in police custody and his vehicle was seized.
2,200 people arrested in 2022
In the same night, in Athis-Mons (Essonne), three scooters were seized and a 34-year-old man taken into custody as part of an urban rodeo involving three motocross bikes and three scooters, detailed the police source.
Another man was also taken into custody in another town in Essonne (Ris-Orangis) for a similar case this Sunday.
More than 2,200 people have been arrested and 1,800 scooters and motorcycles have been seized since the start of the year for urban rodeos, more than in 2021, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on August 17.
On August 8, he announced an intensification of controls throughout France against people performing urban rodeos.
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