the prefect tackles wild runs and tuning rallies

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It was last October. A hundred cars met in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (Val-d'Oise) to indulge in wild runs on the straight line of departmental road 192, in the Montmorency forest. A “rasso” (gathering) during which speed aficionados race on straight lines, like the Fast and Furious filmsbrushing past spectators who took out their phones to immortalize the scene. The intervention of the Bac police officers made it possible to disperse the participants who had then gathered a little further away, at a roundabout, between Goussainville and Le Thillay, until the new mobilization of the police forces. 'order.

A month later on the night of November 10 to 11, it was once again in Goussainville, rue Jean-Pierre-Timbaud, in the industrial zone of Louvres, that a run sauvage was organized. “The police were attacked by groups of hostile individuals (insults, throwing projectiles) and on this occasion they had to use weapons of defense and dissuasion,” underlines the prefect of Val-d 'Oise, Philippe Court.

“Generators of disturbances to public order”

Since the start of the school year in September, car gatherings have multiplied in Val-d'Oise. “They are growing and attracting a growing number of participants,” notes the state representative who has decided to tighten the screws on fans of car running, but also of tuning, who regularly meet in the evenings on weekends. -ends in car parks and industrial zones in the department.

On November 15, 2024, the prefect of Val-d'Oise took a order prohibiting these gatherings of people and vehicles “generates disturbances to public order and security, in particular by violating speed limits and the rules of the Highway Code (skidding or accelerating on the spot to warm the tires) and endangering the safety of others motorists, spectators or passers-by.

Announced on social networks, the latter “are not the subject of any prior declaration to the competent services nor of any security measure on the part of their initiators”, condemns Philippe Court.

Up to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 7,500 euros

The ban applies every weekend from Friday at 5 p.m. until Monday at 6 a.m. since November 22, 2024 and until January 6, 2025. The prefect of Val-d'Oise reminds that any individual who does not respect not this decree is exposed to confiscation of his vehicle and heavy finesin accordance with the criminal sanctions provided for in articles 431-9 (six months' imprisonment and a fine of 7,500 euros for the organizers; one year's imprisonment and a fine of 15,000 euros in the event of participants' faces being concealed without legitimate reason) and R610-5 of the Penal Code (contravention of 2^e class of 150 euros).

The police thus hope to stem a growing phenomenon which is putting them to the test. In September 2023, the police intervened for a large gathering in Béthunes, in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône. Nearly 1,000 vehicles and around 3,000 participants were present. In total, 60 reports were issued by the police, while the two organizers were arrested.

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