The Minister of the Interior and Overseas, Gérald Darmanin, visiting Mayotte, announced on Monday August 22 that he was going to make proposals to open ” places of rehabilitation and recovery for juvenile delinquents, supervised by soldiers.
” The President of the Republic in his campaign has proposed something that has not been discussed much : places supervised by soldiers, which are places of re-education, recovery of some of the children, very young adolescents, who have no parents, or very few. We saw it a little in Reunion, we see it a lot here in Mayotte “, declared the minister to the press at the end of the visit to the hospital center of this island in the Indian Ocean.
He announced that he would make proposals to this effect to the President of the Republic ” from next week “. The Minister indicated that the police and gendarmes, decorated earlier in the day, had spoken of ” apart from minors aged 11, 10, nine years old who had machetes, axes, who attacked the police and the gendarmes “.
I announced earlier that in the campaign of the President of the Republic, there was a proposal, a military framework for young offenders. I spoke with the President of the Republic today. One of the first military training centers that he will propose, that is to say to re-educate, to sanction these young people who clearly have become people who attack, who kill, who loot, we will do here in Mayotte.
Gérald Darmanin: places of “recovery” for juvenile offenders
” Today, the magistrates, and this is quite normal, release them, since we do not put children in prison, but we must nevertheless offer them a place of punishment and education. “, explained the minister. For his part, the Keeper of the Seals announced Thursday the opening by 2024 of a closed educational center (CEF) in Mayotte, but these places are intended for young people aged 13 and over.
In addition, faced with the Mahorais for whom insecurity is a major daily fear, the minister also asked the director general of the national police ” to study the possibility of using intermediate weapons, which we used here when there were riots, when the Raid came “, during scuffles involving minors. He recalled that, obviously, when apprehending minors, even extremely violent ones, (there is) no possibility of shooting live ammunition as one would when attacked by adults “.
(With AFP)
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