The victim, aged 23, apparently fell after refusing to comply. An investigation is open.
A 23-year-old young man was seriously injured on Sunday morning in Hauts-de-Seine during a fall, after refusing priority to a police car which then asked him to stop, it was reported. learned from the prefecture.
“Around 5:00 a.m., this morning a young person on a scooter without a helmet refused priority to a police vehicle, which followed him before very quickly stopping following him” along an avenue separating these two cities northwest of Paris, indicated this source, contacted by AFP on Sunday evening.
The police then lost sight of the two-wheeler, which was found a few minutes later “below on a railway track, apparently after what would have been a collision between the scooter and a metal barrier”continued the prefecture. “The conditions of the facts” still remain unclear at this stage, insists the same source.
The 23-year-old young man was “in serious, even very serious, condition.she further specifies, indicating that it was “still alive” at the start of the evening.
Two open investigations
Two investigations were opened, one entrusted to the Departmental Security and the other to the police according to the prefecture, which did not specify for which leaders.
Contacted by AFP, the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office could not be reached on Sunday evening.
