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Friday, June 30, I had a feeling of deja vu. While France had just experienced its third night of violence triggered by the death of Nahel M., 17, killed in Nanterre by a policeman for refusing to comply, the President of the Republic took the floor about the “young, sometimes very young” rioters: “It’s the parents’ responsibility to keep them at home”said Emmanuel Macron. “The Republic is not intended to replace them. »
A deja vu, because in November 2005, after the riots linked to the death of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré in Clichy-sous-Bois, electrocuted while trying to flee the anti-crime brigade, Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of the Interior, was already appealing to parents : ” Family (…), it is also the place where authority must be exercised. One day, we will have to clearly ask the question of the maintenance of allowances in the event of a breach of this authority! »
Even more striking, in 2010, the same Nicolas Sarkozy – who had become President of the Republic – returned to the charge in his famous “Grenoble speech”after several nights of riots following the death of a casino robber: “When I look at police reports, said Mr. Sarkozy, and I see that a 12-year-old or 13-year-old minor, at 1 a.m., (…) throws Molotov cocktails at a passing bus, isn’t there a problem of parental responsibility? »
NTM and Sarkozy
An association of ideas then strangely took me straight from Nicolas Sarkozy to NTM, who sang in 1998: “Don’t leave your son lying around/If you don’t want him to slip/What did you want your son to learn in the street?/What virtues did you think they were taught there?” »
I was there in my ramblings when the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, went up on Saturday 1er July : “Let them hold their kids!” »elegantly exclaimed the Minister of Justice at the court of Créteil. “Parents who don’t care about their kids and leave them hanging out at night knowing where they’re going (…)they risk two years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros.he said in reference to article 227-17 of the penal code, which allows proceedings against parents in the event of lack of education.
Of course, a minor is under the responsibility of his parents. It is sometimes necessary, and salutary, to remember this. On Wednesday July 5, Eric Dupond-Moretti announced that he had “wrote a flyer” (which we could also call a leaflet or prospectus) reminding parents who “would have forgotten” their three responsibilities: criminal, civil, and to accompany their summoned children to court. The message is indisputable. The method, less… Receiving a reminder of the law between an advertisement for Lidl chicken and promotions at Domino’s Pizza, is it really effective?
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