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Paris police are in search of two e-scooter drivers after a pedestrian was killed | Paris

Police are looking for two women after a pedestrian was hit by an electric scooter in Paris.

The victim, a 31-year-old Italian woman known only as Miriam, has been in a coma since she was hit by the e-scooter that was supposedly traveling at high speed in the early hours of Monday morning.

River police divers patrolling the area tended the victim, who suffered cardiac arrest after hitting his head on the sidewalk, until an ambulance arrived.

They restarted her heart after 30 minutes and she was taken to the hospital unconscious, where she died on Wednesday.

The public prosecutor’s office has initiated a preliminary investigation into “murder made difficult by failure to recruit”. The police were looking for witnesses to the fatal incident that occurred at 1 a.m. on the Voie Georges-Pompidou on the right bank of the Seine near the Île de la Cité and tried to locate the two drivers of the e-scooter.

Video surveillance in the area is also being investigated.

The death reignited the controversy over the place of e-scooters in the French capital. Although hailed as an ecological mode of transport around the city and a welcome alternative to motorized vehicles, others pose a hazard to pedestrians, especially as they are widely used on sidewalks.

It also came when London embarked on a 12-month trial of electric scooters on June 7th after piloting projects in more than 40 cities across the UK before the government decided to legalize them on UK roads.

Around 70 people are said to have been injured since the trials began last year. Privately owned e-scooters are prohibited on public roads, bike paths and sidewalks, but e-scooters rented in test areas can be used on roads and bike paths.

A program by the Swedish company Voi in Coventry was interrupted after five days because people were driving in pedestrian zones.

There are three licensed private operators in Paris that have around 15,000 electric scooters that were launched in the city in 2018.

David Belliard, a Parisian deputy mayor in charge of traffic in the city, expressed condolences to the family and friends of the dead woman, who was originally from Capalbio, Tuscany and worked in an Italian restaurant.

“The safety of the weakest, ie the pedestrians, is one of my priorities,” he said and asked the two drivers to report.

Police in Balaruc-les-Bains in the Hérault region stopped a man in May who was traveling at 98 km / h (61 mph) on an electric scooter.

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