The 18-year-old young man taken into police custody on Saturday after admitting to having knocked down and seriously injured two children aged 10 and 11 on Friday evening with a motocross during an urban rodeo in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise) was charged and taken into custody.
The facts took place on Friday around 9:15 p.m. while the two children, “a 10-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy were playing tag” on the esplanade, in the Hauts Marcouville district, in Pontoise, indicated the Departmental Direction of public security (DDSP) of Val-d’Oise.
The two children were hit by a motorcyclist who had fled.
“She will have heavy neurological sequelae”
The next day, in the early afternoon, the young man went to the police station with his lawyer and “acknowledged the facts”, said the Pontoise prosecution.
The girl has “a head trauma”. She was taken to Necker Hospital in Paris and operated on Saturday. “If this child remains alive, she will have heavy neurological sequelae,” said the Pontoise prosecutor’s office.
The boy is suffering from a tibia-fibula fracture. He was first transported to Pontoise hospital but his condition deteriorated, and he was airlifted to Amiens hospital. “His condition has stabilized”, continues this source. He also suffered “traumatic amnesia”, details the prosecution.