A young man killed during a beating outside his college in Viry-Châtillon. A 13-year-old girl attacked, again near her establishment in Montpellier. Two minors indicted for the murder of a man in Grande-Synthe. Or even a teenager killed after intervening in an altercation in Romans-sur-Isère. Four news stories from this month of April in France which have relaunched the discussion on violence which is plaguing young people. So are today’s young people more prone to violent acts than past generations? What solutions to this phenomenon, when the government is already promising a counterattack by the Republic and a surge of authority?
To debate it
Muriel Eglinpresident of the Bobigny children’s court, vice-president of the French association of youth and family magistrates
Christian Mouhanna, researcher at the CNRS and the Center for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions (Cesdip), he studies police organizations, criminal justice and the prison environment
Véronique Blancharddoctor in history, holder of the childhood and youth chair at the University of Angers