They expected to see them disembark for May 1 … The police were not mistaken. This Thursday, in the Amblainville activity zone, a town of 1,800 souls located west of the department of Oise, several individuals found themselves to exercise dangerous figures on the handlebars of their motorcycle.
Five of them, aged under the age of thirty, were placed in police custody during a control operation organized near the site little frequented on this labor day. Four motorcycles have been the subject of an administrative seizure, as well as two vans used to transport them.
“They train to make wheels before”
“It is a place known for rodeos on a motorcycle, it is the subject of exchanges on social networks beyond the town,” says a gendarme in the sector. As soon as the weather is nice, they come back. And as there are lots of possible outings, we anticipated to intervene effectively. »»
From the start of the afternoon, around thirty soldiers from the gendarmerie surveillance and intervention platoon (PSIG), the Oise road safety squadron and the meru brigade, supported by municipal police officers, the area grown. Acting on the requisition of the prosecutor of the Republic of Beauvais, they were able to control and immediately seize the vehicles serving in the urban rodeo.
Up to 15,000 euros fine
“They train to make front wheels, rear wheels, to braking techniques,” says the field agent. They then reproduce these dangerous behaviors within the neighborhoods, as close as possible to the population, sometimes in the places where pedestrians cross. They also do a lot of damage in the fields of farmers. »»
The followers of these illegal practices sometimes come from all over Île-de-France in these remote corners of the Oise to get their hands. A real scourge against which local elected officials try to face. Since 2018, the penalty incurred for rodeos on a motorcycle can go up to a year of imprisonment, 15,000 euros fine and the withdrawal of six points on the driving license.
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