For his hundredth day at the head of government, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal called Thursday for a “real burst of authority“, aiming in particular “addiction to violence” of a part of the youth.
For this “discourse on authority at the heart of the Republic“, Attal had chosen Viry-Châtillon, in the southern suburbs of Paris, a town marked by the death of a 15-year-old teenager, beaten near his college. In this case which sparked, with others, strong emotion in France, four young men, three minors and one adult, were charged with murder. They were all placed in pre-trial detention.
Attal sounded the “general mobilization of the nation to reconnect with its adolescents” et “curb violence“, giving himself eight weeks to complete a “collective work” on this topic. “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.
Among the provisions announced, more time spent in college, disruptive students who will be “sanctioned” in obtaining their diplomas, or even the development of measures to regulate dependence on screens. A little more than three months after his appointment, the former Minister of Education intends to follow the straight line of his general policy statement He then returned to the urban riots which engulfed the country at the beginning of the summer of 2023 after the death of a young man, killed by a police officer in the Paris region during a road check.
