The authorities must “rot the holidays” of the “thugs” involved in the urban violence of the last few days, said Wednesday the president LR of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse, who calls for a “shock of authority” via in particular the lowering the criminal majority to 16 years.
“The average age of the hundreds of people who have been arrested is 17 years old. The subject today is that we have juvenile justice which is not able to judge in immediate appearance” , nor “to put them out of harm’s way”, declared the ex-candidate LR for the presidential election on RTL.
“You have to rot their holidays” to “all these thugs, all these arsonists”, that is to say “punish them quickly and keep them away from their neighborhood”, said the elected representative on the right, asking again to “double” the fifty closed centers for minors existing in France and to “lower the criminal majority to 16 years”.
The Ile-de-France region, the most affected by the riots with 140 municipalities, “more than a hundred public buildings” and 400 businesses “burnt or ransacked”, is “always ready to pay” for this doubling on its territory, a- she pointed out.
Similarly, Ms. Pécresse calls for “a minimum mandatory prison sentence of at least one year” in the event of an attack on “authority figures”.
The leader of the first region of France also wants to “empower” the families of those who “put the souk”, “including on family allowances but also on social housing”.
“I ask that the mayors who can no longer take it can request by decree the expulsion of a family whose children put the souk in the neighborhood,” she said.
Regarding the modus operandi of the perpetrators of urban violence, Ms. Pécresse says she does not understand “why we do not lift anonymity on social networks” or “why we do not establish criminal liability for platforms”.
Between China where “they control their social networks really well” and the “totally libertarian” culture of the United States, “we must invent a European model of control of social networks which respects freedoms but at the same time protects society”, did she say.
7/5/2023 11:24:25 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
