Gabriel Attal denounced Thursday morning from Viry-Châtillon the “addiction of a part of our adolescents to violence”, consequently calling for “a real burst of authority” to “reverse this form of spiral of the collapse of authority.”
“There are twice as many adolescents involved in assault and battery, four times more in drug trafficking, and seven times more in armed robberies than in the general population,” listed the Prime Minister from this city of Essonne was recently marked by the death of Shemseddine, 15, beaten near his college.
Eight weeks to complete the “collective work”
Gabriel Attal gave “eight weeks” to complete the “collective work” of consultation requested by President Emmanuel Macron on youth violence, with “a central milestone in four weeks”.
Among the first measures to attack “the evil at the root”, the Prime Minister indicated that all middle school students would be “in school every day of the week, between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.” because “during the day, the place is at school , to work and to learn. He insisted on parental responsibility, and affirmed that a commission would make proposals by the end of the month to regulate screen addiction.