The day after the death of a 15-year-old teenager in Strasbourg on New Year's Eve, a suspect was placed in police custody. The driver of the vehicle involved, who had fled, finally went to the police station late in the evening this Wednesday, January 1, according to The Latest News from Alsace. It would be a man who has barely reached the age of majority, specifies France Info.
The events occurred around 1 a.m. in the Cité de l'Ill district. The victim was hit and then left in the street. She was initially taken to hospital with a life-threatening condition, but she later died.
Nearly 700 police officers were engaged, during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, in Strasbourg and its surrounding area as well as 500 gendarmes in the rest of Bas-Rhin, indicated the prefect of this department, Jacques Witkowski.
During the previous nights, “around forty arrests” had taken place in Strasbourg following vehicle damage, trash fires but also urban violence, the prefect recalled.
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