DOCUMENT RTL/M6 – Cyclist killed in Paris: “It’s savagery”, testify the victim’s mother and brother

Tuesday October 15, a 27-year-old cyclist, Paul, was killed by a motorist in Paris. After a brief altercation, the driver allegedly overturned and rolled over the young man. The victim’s mother and brother speak for the first time, an RTL/M6 document. “It’s a tragedy in our family,” confides his mother. “How are we going to manage to live with this, how are we going to integrate it? What will our taste for living be?”

“My life turned upside down on Tuesday evening,” says the mother. “Our Christmases together, our vacations together, all those moments, they will no longer exist… It’s horrible. Because of a guy. If that guy doesn’t Had it not been there, Paul, my son, would have been alive. What’s the worst thing for a mom or dad to lose a child?”

His brother recalls: “his friend calls me, tells me to sit down. It’s his friend from Paris, I immediately understood what he was going to tell me, that Paul had left”, confides -he, his voice cracking with emotion. “We learned from the newspapers that it was not as simple as that, that it was very, very serious. That it was murder. There are no other words.”

We can’t say it was an accident, that’s not possible.

The victim’s brother, for RTL and M6

“At the morgue, we saw Paul, he was in a state… There are no words, it was barbarism, clearly, continues the young man’s brother. This person deliberately rushed towards him. Paul was in front, the person accelerated, passed over him twice, front wheel, rear wheel, he went another 10 meters. We can’t say it was an accident, that’s not possible. All this for an altercation. The war between bikes and cars makes no sense.”

The victim’s mother agrees: it’s “savagery”. Coming to Paris while she lives in the Hautes-Alpes, near Gap, she says: “I will not leave without Paul from Paris. The burial will be in his birthplace, in his cradle, where he was born “. And to conclude: “We will have to face this. It is an immense pain.”