French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne presented the government’s anti-riot plan in Paris on Thursday to mayors whose cities have been hardest hit by rioting following the police killing that sparked widespread unrest across the country in June.
On 27 June, 17-year-old Nahel was shot dead by a policeman during a traffic stop in the Nanterre area of Paris. The incident sparked a series of violent riots, looting, looting and arson, and nearly 2,000 people were convicted.
On 24 July, almost a month after the incident and after tensions had subsided, President Emmanuel Macron spoke about the situation in an interview with TF1 and France 2: “The lesson I draw from this is order, order, order”.
There is a need for “the return of authority, at every level, and above all in the family”.
At the time, Macron had already outlined a number of priorities, including “the family project”, “the place of schools”, “integration through the economy and employment” and “the regulation of screens”.
In line with the president’s announcements, Borne announced several measures on Thursday, including earmarking €100 million in aid to the mayors to “help with repairs and reconstruction, in addition to insurance compensation”.
Echoing Macron’s comments on parental oversight, Borne proposed plans to impose “parental responsibility training courses or community service sentences” on “parents who shirk their parenting duties”.
Most rioters were young men, according to an inter-ministerial report consulted by AFP, of whom “barely a quarter of the perpetrators were over 25; one in five was still a secondary school student”, Borne added.
With regard to screen regulation, the government wants to introduce a “digital ban”, which would enable accounts broadcasting violent content or content encouraging violence to be suspended for six months.
Borne also announced plans to present a new national plan to combat drugs, saying that drug trafficking is a “scourge” that is “the matrix of all crime”.
To this end, Borne announced the creation of 8,500 police and gendarmerie posts and 15,000 prison places by the end of Macron’s term in 2027.
(Clara Bauer-Babef | Euractiv.fr)
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