The firefighter injured in an urban rodeo is no longer in danger of death, according to the prefect of Haute-Savoie-Liberation

He had been hospitalized between life and death. The firefighter overturned during an urban rodeo Saturday in Haute-Savoie is now in a state « stable »reassured this Monday, May 12, the prefect of the department on Monday, on the waves ofHere Pays de Savoie. « This firefighter is still struggling today for his health »however continued Emmanuelle Dubée at the microphone of local radio, without giving more details.

38 years old and father of a child, this volunteer firefighter from the Evian-Les Bains barracks suffers from a cranial trauma and a thoracic sinking, according to a police source. « Today you have to leave your family and loved ones to surround them as best as discreetly as possible »said the prefect, expressing « The shock » Among his colleagues.

Saturday May 10 in the early morning, two vehicles were making « Deraples » near their barracks. Several firefighters then left to ask them to stop. But as they returned to the barracks, one of the drivers restarted his car and struck the victim, before turning around and returning to spit on the injured.

This 19 -year -old man, already known to the police and whose license was suspended, was quickly arrested. He presented an alcohol level of 0.28 mg /l and bottles of alcohol and nitrogen oxide (hilarious gas) were found in his vehicle. He was placed in police custody as well as the other driver involved in an investigation for attempted murder, according to the prosecution.

Since the beginning of the year, around sixty procedures and reports related to urban rodeos have been counted in Haute-Savoie, according to the prefect.

A growing phenomenon in the face of which the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin calls for rating. He asked on x « The greatest firmness against the scourge of urban rodeos, which rots the life of many French people ». Before adding that the public prosecutors « Will now have to systematically seize the vehicles involved in rodeos and, as the law allows, selling them or having them destroyed even before judgment ».