Samara in Montpellier, Shemseddine in Viry-Châtillon, Philippe in Grande-Synthe… Dramas near schools or involving minors have multiplied in recent weeks. This Thursday, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal went to the commune of Essonne to announce new measures to strengthen the authority of the teaching profession, in the face of students considered ever more violent. Among them, we find several proposals long mentioned in the past, such as a “mitigation” of the “minority excuse” or a doubling of civic education courses at school.
Condition certain non-obligatory aid
But to dissuade minors from committing crimes, some elected officials would like to threaten their wallets, particularly those of parents. “It’s a very effective deterrent,” maintains, for example, Karl Olive, Renaissance deputy for Yvelines, previously mayor of Poissy. At the time, he had put in place a system to “punish” “resigning” parents, conditioning certain aid from the municipality.
“We have reduced juvenile delinquency by 30% in Poissy. How? It was non-obligatory aid which I define as citizen purchasing power with, for example, a 30 euro reduction for registering in a youth club. sport, 50 euros to do a cultural activity; in exchange for what? That the young people behave civically. And when at 2 a.m., a twelve-year-old came to break up a bus shelter. no question of maintaining this type of aid”, explains the former councilor in Europe 1 midday weekend.
Discernment
A measure which also allowed him to reconnect with families, he assures, since he “did not need to use this tool”. “Just the fact of the threat allowed me to reconnect with the families,” adds Karl Olive. Having in particular the example of the riots in mind, the MP also maintains that mayors of municipalities cannot “expect everything from the State” and calls for discernment, especially for single-parent families.
Other tools were mentioned by the Prime Minister, such as a mention aimed at penalizing disruptive students on their diplomas. 67% of French people say they are in favor of the generalization of a curfew for minors from 11 p.m. in order to keep young people away from delinquency, according to a CSA survey for Europe 1, CNews and The Sunday Journal.