We must “tell the parents again that they hold their kids”, said Éric Dupond-Moretti during a trip to the court in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), Saturday July 1. The day after the sending of a circular which details the “firm and systematic” criminal response that he wishes against the participants in the recent urban violence, the Minister of Justice was reminded: “Parents who are not interested in their kids and who leave them hanging out at night knowing where they are going (…) incur two years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros. »
“It is not for the state to raise the children. The state can help parents but it cannot replace them,” added Éric Dupond-Moretti, who came “to see the application of his circular,” according to the Ministry of Justice.
The circular sent on Friday 30 June reminds us that it is possible to use the police to summon parents who do not appear when their child is summoned to court, or to condemn them directly to a fine or parental responsibility course.
“We are going to ‘blow the accounts'” of young users of social networks “who use it to say when, where and how we are going to break up”, also assured the former tenor of the bar. “The judicial authority may require operators to hand over IP addresses,” he explained.
Since the death of young Nahel, killed on Tuesday by a policeman in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), urban violence has erupted everywhere in Île-de-France and in the rest of the country. The perpetrators of these riots, sometimes very young, often relay their violence on social networks, which find themselves in the sights of the government because of their amplifying effect.
