Ten-year-old girl suffers major head injuries as motocross bike rider at meet-up in Pontoise hits two children
, known as “urban rodeos”, in which teenagers compete to perform prolonged wheelies and stunts on motocross bikes. It is common in the areas around Paris, where police often target what they call illegal gatherings with unregistered bikes. In the Val-d’Oise département, north of Paris, there have been 534 police interventions for urban rodeos since April, with 37 people arrested and 34 bikes seized, local authorities told Agence France-Presse.
In June, a 19-year-old died after he was hit by a motocross bike at an urban rodeo in the Brittany city of Rennes.During the first term of the French president, , in 2018 a new law was passed to toughen punishments for illegal motorbike rodeos, with riders facing up to five years in prison. Natalia Pouzyreff, a lawmaker for Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party, Renaissance, who co-authored the 2018 law, toldon Sunday there must be “more systematic confiscations” of motocross bikes. She said there should be more police interventions on the ground and more CCTV cameras in certain areas. She said if arrests were followed by prison sentences “and more radical sanctions” they would have a “dissuasive effect”., the first French feature film about motocross dirt-bike riding.
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