A judicial investigation was opened Thursday, as part of the investigation into the death of a young man in Villiers-le-Bel, Sunday in a motorcycle accident occurred near a police intervention. "An investigation was opened today by the prosecution of the head of manslaughter against X", said the public prosecutor of Pontoise, in a statement.
A motorcycle accident near a police intervention
The accident took place Sunday around 17H, in the neighborhood of La Cerisaie in Villiers-le-Bel, a city in the Paris region which was the scene in 2007 of urban riots and violent clashes with the police after the death of two teenagers in the collision between their motorcycle and a police car. Sunday afternoon, as police "intervened to immobilize a motor vehicle following the commission of traffic offenses (...) a man aged 23, living in Sarcelles, who was driving a motorcycle Cross Yamaha 125, wearing a helmet, arrived on rue Faidherbe ", details the statement of the prosecutor of the Republic, Eric Corbaux.
According to the first testimonies collected, one of the police officers, by gesture and voice, would have signaled him to slow down.In the circumstances that the investigation will have to determine, the motorcycle and its driver fell, the latter struck the metal pole of a lamppost ", continues the statement. Despite the "resuscitation maneuvers" of the police, the young man did not survive, the Samu and the firefighters could only see his death. A thousand people gathered Monday in Villiers-le-Bel to claim "the truth" about the circumstances of the death.