A cyclist died on Tuesday afternoon in Paris, hit by a car after a dispute with the driver of the vehicle, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned on Wednesday, October 16, of the prosecutor’s office, which opened a murder investigation.
The 27-year-old cyclist died “on the public road, Malesherbes Boulevard” in the west of the capital, “at 5:45 p.m., after a dispute with the driver of a vehicle”according to the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirming information from the Actu17 site.
The driver, 52, was arrested at the scene. In the vehicle was his daughter, a teenager born in 2007. The first witnesses “perceived a voluntary attitude of the driver during the movement of the car towards the cyclist”we specify from the same source.
A murder investigation has been entrusted to 1Ahem judicial police district.
In 2023, 226 cyclists died on French roads. For the third consecutive year, the threshold of 200 deaths has been exceeded.
