2023-06-30 19:06:54
While the evenings follow one another and look alike in the working-class neighborhoods of France after the death, Tuesday, of Nahel in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), calls for calm have so far proved ineffective. And the roar of the elect rises.
These mayors, who come every morning to see the extent of the damage, reassure the staff whose buildings have been targeted, and listen to residents whose business or car has been burned down, are tired. And angry. Against young people who break. Against their parents too. “They too are responsible,” grinds Lorrain Merckaert, mayor (DVD) of Montigny-le-Bretonneux (Yvelines).
His city was affected like so many others by urban violence. With as a highlight the night of Thursday to this Friday, with the looting of an Action store and the burning of two municipal minibuses which was to allow about fifteen children to go on vacation this summer. “I am angry with parents who see their child go out dressed in black in the middle of the night, at 3 a.m.,” castigates the elected official.
Do not let them out, “even if only for their safety”
Like the mayor of Mantes-la-Jolie before him, for whom “everyone must ensure that teenagers stay at home”, the elected representative of Montigny-le-Bretonneux believes that “it is indeed the responsibility of parents, they must assume their role. And this, “if only for their safety”. “Letting your children go out at night in the middle of hordes of thugs is totally unconscious. »
To avoid reliving the scenes of riots last night, the mayor says he is using all the means at his disposal, starting with educators, neighborhood houses or even social networks. “I cannot hear that in Montigny, we live in difficult conditions. There are difficulties, it’s true, but we have the means to help everyone, he says. If a family needs anything, we’ll always be there. »
But, annoyed, he announces that if this continues, he will stop fighting. And revives the debate on sanctions. The town hall of Poissy had wanted to sweeten the municipal aid for the families of minors who have committed acts of delinquency. Justice had finally rejected the idea. “If the state gives us the opportunity to sanction, we would seize it. »
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