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Mortal crash in LausanneThe district is a spot of rodeos known for years
Residents of the Blécherette has been denouncing young guidon crazy people since 2020 who are crossing the neighborhood at full speed. The police have already raised a lot.
The Blécherette district is often the scene of urban rodeos.
GoogleDid the 14-year-old adolescent girl who lost her life in a motorcycle accident on Monday evening in Lausanne, did she participate in an “urban rodeo” or not? The police investigation, which only begins, may say it. The parents of the victim, like his friends, sweep this hypothesis. For his part, the police said that they have received the reporting of a rodeo on a motorcycle and that that’s why she dispatched an agent on the spot, before the deadly crash.
One thing is certain: the sector in question, near the Plaines-du-Loup, is known to be a spot where young people often indulge in practice. Local residents have been complaining about the police for years. We have been able to consult email exchanges which describe maddening scenes and which date from 2020 already.
Impossible to capture on video
“They are alone or two on small unregistered displacements, most of the time without a helmet, and roll at 50-80 km/h in our zone 30, deplores a resident. All at any time of the day or night, week and weekend. Despite our regular reports, it is difficult to obtain an effective intervention, because these vehicles spin at such a speed that we do not even manage to capture them on video. ” For the past two years, the phenomenon has even been accentuated. “The inaction of the authorities undoubtedly transformed the district into a space giving a feeling of lawlessness, where these drivers circulate with impunity,” she fulminates.
Ten offenses denounced in the neighborhood
Contacted, the police say, on the contrary, having raised a lot in the area, which they have in the viewfinder “for several months”. “The Plains-du-Loup sector is known to be a place where rodeos take place,” says its spokesperson Michel Gandillon. Police bikers are present there daily to combat these dangerous and inappropriate practices. ”
According to him, the police are requested on average once a day for issues related to urban rodeos and more than a dozen denunciations have been established. “However, it is not easy to carry out arrests, knowing that in view of the police, the protagonists cease their activities and leave the scene,” he continues. Being present has a goal above all preventive and dissuasive. ”
