In recent times, violence in France has reached unprecedented proportions. Not a week goes by without a violent incident involving young people appearing on the front pages of the newspapers. Without exaggeration, it is revealed on a daily basis that 13-14-year-old children torture their classmates, are cruel to them, or even kill them.

In February, two children were killed by their barely-adolescent partner within two days. And of course, child gang wars between migrants are also common, not to mention drug violence. On February 22, a 14-year-old student girl died in a gang war in the Essonne department in the Paris region, and the next day a boy of her same age was stabbed to death. More and more such cases are happening, and the scenario is almost always the same: two rival gangs clash over some disagreement. In many cases, the cause of the fight is just something insignificant that is exaggerated by spreading it on social media.

The mob does not obey the curfew. Fining individuals in gang wars is impossible due to the number of offenders and the risk of resistance to the police. If the police do catch a few criminals, in many cases the punishment is still ineffective because the minors cannot pay.

Members of rival gangs often provoke each other on social networking sites, and the clashes are coordinated via the Internet, and on social networking sites they discuss when and where the showdown will take place.

There should be zero tolerance for minor gang members, who should be detained in correctional centers specifically reserved for juvenile offenders outside of their county of residence. Furthermore, the social assistance granted to the parents of juvenile offenders should be systematically withdrawn. In addition, it could also be effective if teachers had the option to discipline. Today, teachers are the ones who fear their students, when it should be the other way around. said Michel Thooris, secretary general of the French police union France Police, who gave an exclusive interview to V4NA.

Source: Origo,

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