2023-06-30 15:34:55
He had been forced to return to Paris in an emergency, before the end of a European summit in Brussels. Emmanuel Macron on Friday called on “all parents to be responsible” and announced that “additional means” would be deployed after three nights of urban riots, following the death of Nahel in Nanterre.
“There is an unacceptable instrumentalization of the death of a teenager, which we all deplore, when the period should be one of meditation and respect”, declared the Head of State at the conclusion of the meeting of the interministerial cell of crisis which was held on Friday at the Ministry of the Interior.
“Faced with this, I condemn in the strongest terms all those who use this situation and this moment to try to create disorder and attack our institutions. They bear an overwhelming factual responsibility. And I condemn with the greatest firmness, we all condemn them, this pure and unjustifiable violence which has no legitimacy, ”continued the president.
Several events canceled
Emmanuel Macron welcomed the “rapid and appropriate” response from the police and announced that “additional means” would be deployed by the Ministry of the Interior. “The decision has been taken to cancel several festive events and several gatherings in the departments which are the most sensitive”, he also indicated.
The President of the Republic also took advantage of this speech to call on “all parents to be responsible” who, according to him, must keep their children at home. “It is clear that the context we are living in, as we can see, is the result of sometimes organized, violent and equipped groups, which we condemn, which we apprehend and which will be brought to justice, but also of many young people. A third of those arrested last night are young people, sometimes very young people, ”observed Emmanuel Macron.
“It is the parents’ responsibility to keep them at home. So it is important for everyone’s peace of mind that parental responsibility can clearly be exercised. (…) The Republic is not intended to replace (mothers and fathers of families)”, he continued.
“Mimicry of violence”
He also said he expected a “spirit of responsibility” from the major social media platforms, citing in particular Snapchat and TikTok where “violent gatherings” are organized and which “also arouse a form of mimicry of violence, which leads to young people to a form of exit from reality”. “We sometimes have the feeling that some of them live on the street with the video games that have intoxicated them,” said Emmanuel Macron.
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The president announced that “measures” would be taken in this regard “in the coming hours”, in particular “the withdrawal of the most sensitive content” in connection with the platforms. Requests will also be made to obtain the identity of those “who use these social networks to call for disorder or to exacerbate violence”, he said.
During the night from Thursday to Friday, the police carried out 875 arrests, including 408 in Paris and its inner suburbs, according to the final report of the Ministry of the Interior. A total of 249 police and gendarmes were injured overnight.
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