They would be at the origin of the violent death of Miriam Segato, the young Italian woman, overwhelmed by an electric scooter, in the center of Paris: two 25-year-old French women, who live on the outskirts of the capital, were stopped by the police on Thursday in the morning. They are currently under interrogation, while some searches are being carried out in their homes.
Miriam, 31, originally from Capalbio, Tuscany, worked as a waitress, head of the dining room in an Italian restaurant in the heart of Paris. On June 14, after disconnecting, she went to the pedestrian embankment of the Seine, opposite the island of the Cité. He had joined some work colleagues. It was just past midnight: at least fifty people were in that place, as always in recent times, now that it is hot and there is no longer a curfew. Miriam was talking to a friend when she was hit by an electric scooter, on board of which there were two young women, who then fled.
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Miriam had hit her head on a sidewalk. Rescuing her had been the divers of the river brigade, who were patrolling the river, but the woman was in cardiac arrest. After about thirty minutes, the heart returned and the woman was transported to a hospital. There, however, it had died out two days later. The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office had immediately opened an investigation for manslaughter, aggravated by the escape and failure to provide assistance. And the police had launched an appeal to find the two girls responsible for the accident. Here, finally these two young women have been stopped. One is based in Noisy-le-Grand, on the eastern outskirts of Paris, and the other in Villiers-sur-Marne, next door. Both of them would be nurses and that fateful evening they would be drunk.
In 2020, according to Argus magazine, which specializes in insurance, 431 victims of accidents caused by scooters were in France (without specifying the number of deaths). In 2019 the Government had intervened with a decree, imposing a maximum speed limit of 25 km per hour, the prohibition of using them on the sidewalks and the obligation to be at least 12 years old to drive them. But there are many requests to go further and to demand more. As for their diffusion in France, the latest data date back to 2019, when 500 thousand had been acquired, double the previous year.