(Évry-Courcouronnes) French actor Mathieu Kassovitz is in a “worrying” state after a motorcycle accident on Sunday in the Paris region, we learned from local authorities.

He was transported to the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital, near Paris, said the prefecture of Essonne, the department where the accident occurred.

Mathieu Kassovitz, 56, was doing a motorcycle course on the Linas-Monthléry autodrome racing circuit, a police source told AFP.

Director of the film La Haine (1995), he starred in dozens of films (A Very Discreet Hero by Jacques Audiard, Amen by Costa-Gavras, etc.), as well as in the spy series The Legends Office of Eric Rochant.

He is currently showing in France Visions, a thriller by Yann Gozlan, with Diane Kruger.