The investigation is still ongoing and the testimonies are contradictory. A 5-year Romanian died in a traffic accident whose circumstances remain unclear. According to Libération , it belonged to the Roma community.
The incident occurred at 14:30 on the Boulevard Ménilmontant (eleventh arrondissement). According to a source close to the investigation, the child was with his mother and aunt. 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.
He died on the spot, despite the efforts of relief. According to preliminary, the driver and passenger of the van fled on foot after abandoning the van not far away. This has not been reported stolen. Another police source underlines that several witnesses of the incident are contradictory, some saying that the van was not involved in the accident.
Doubts about a police intervention gone wrong
“The two occupants of the vehicle fled after the accident. I trust services Police for them to be quickly identified and agreed, that should be established as soon as the exact circumstances of this tragedy, “said the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, in a statement, addressing his” sincere condolences “to the family of the victim.
The Paris police prefecture has also denied that the child was fleeing a police intervention to disperse vendors, as claimed by the media. “There was no ongoing eviction operation” and “the child was not running away but went instead to the place where the sellers were.”
Libération says in effect that the child was one of the vendors and a police patrol was present. If the officials were not there for ragpickers, they “flee whenever they see a patrol near and far,” writes the daily. The child was hit as he ran. “Every day the police and ragpickers play cat and mouse. I do not understand why we do not leave alone”, indignant with Libération a passerby.
The investigation was entrusted to the judicial treatment service of Accidents (STJA) of the PP.
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