After the death of a 16-year-old teenager on Friday evening July 1 in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne) – fatally struck while riding a bicycle – the custody of the Audi driver continues. A man who tested positive for narcotics, according to our information.
Around 10 p.m. Friday, in the area of the Carrefour hypermarket, the driver was driving “at high speed” according to a source close to the investigation when he knocked down this young resident of Cité Lamartine who was traveling on the roadway and was about to join some friends.
The driver had to be exfiltrated by the police when he was facing a very angry crowd before being taken into custody “for manslaughter”, according to our information.
The drama has indeed brought a hundred people to the scene, including relatives of the young man, very shocked. “The situation became tense at one point because family members wanted to see the victim’s body,” said someone close to the case. To
“I got him on the phone at 9:11 p.m. He had just bought food and we were joining him, one of the victim’s friends testified in tears on Friday evening. We waved to each other and then we heard a big boom. He flew in the air. »
A point of listening
As of this Saturday morning, the municipality has set up a listening point in a municipal hall in the south of the city, for those who feel the need to confide. “Many young people came,” said the mayor (PCF) Pierre Garzon, present Friday evening at the scene of the collision.
In connection with the prefecture of Val-de-Marne and the National Education services, the city also hopes to be able to open a psychological device within its high school but also at the Karl-Marx college, where this young man was educated until to last year.
This is all the more so since college students, celebrating this Friday, made aware of the accident, moved in stride to the scene of the collision and saw the scene “for some for several tens of minutes” , explains the chosen one. Contacted, the Créteil prosecutor’s office could not be reached this Saturday afternoon.
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