A Roma child 5 years old was killed Tuesday, August 4, in a traffic accident in Paris, Ménilmontant boulevard (11 th arrondissement). According to the first elements of the investigation, the driver and passenger of the van that hit the child fled on foot after abandoning the van not far away. The Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, issued a statement in the evening, saying to “trust the police so that they are quickly identified and agreed, that should be established as soon as the exact circumstances of this tragedy “. She also addressed his “sincere condolences” to the family of the victim.
The circumstances of the accident remain unclear. According to the police headquarters of Paris (PP), who stressed that the investigation was still ongoing, the child was with his mother and aunt at the time of the accident. These have crossed a pedestrian crossing, then motioning him to join them. This is when the child crossed in turn he was hit by a van, said the prefecture. The child died on the spot despite the intervention of relief.
The PP has also denied that the child was fleeing a police intervention to disperse vendors like the state media. “There was no ongoing eviction operation” and “The child was not running away but went instead to the place where the sellers were located “, said the press service of the police headquarters. A reporter from Libération asserts that the child was part of a group of vendors that is dispersed, around 14 h 30, while Police arrived. According to the newspaper, the boy was crossing the street at a run when he was hit. The investigation was entrusted to the judicial processing service of the police headquarters accidents.
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