Clashes broke out on the night of Saturday to Sunday in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, in the Paris suburbs, after a motorcycle accident involving the police in circumstances still confused, AFP learned from a police source. According to this source, the driver of the motorcycle was driving at high speed in this town of Hauts-de-Seine when a policeman aboard an unmarked car opened the door of his vehicle and struck him.
The motorcyclist then glided and landed against a pole. He had an open leg fracture, the police source said.
Scuffles then broke out between residents and police, the source said. Their extent remained for the moment still unknown.
Relayed in particular on Twitter, a video showed a man on the ground to whom a police officer seemed to pose a tourniquet in a climate of tension with residents.
Evoking a police blunder, Internet users assured that the biker had a leg torn off in the collision, an assertion that AFP was unable to confirm.
In a press release, the association SOS Racisme indicated, claiming to quote the version given by the police, that the incident took place after a “chase” following a refusal to comply and that the biker was “seriously injured ” on my leg.
“All the light must be shed by the authorities on the circumstances surrounding this event. In these times of confinement and tensions, the proportionality of the police action – which should never be lacking – is undoubtedly all the more more fundamental, “writes the association.
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