Sanction of disruptive students, doubling of civic education classes, possible “mitigation” of the “minority excuse”… Thursday, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal presented a list of measures to combat youth violence. The cause: an increase in brawls and attacks involving minors in recent weeks. But for Malika Sorel, number 2 on the National Rally list in the European elections, these announcements are not enough. Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous d’Europe 1/ CNews/ Les Échos, the essayist considers that in the face of youth violence, Gabriel Attal “gives the feeling of being a helpless spectator”.
“It was the lament: ‘how did we get to this point? How is this possible? The school must remain a sanctuary…’ Mr Prime Minister, it has been a very long time since the school was no longer a sanctuary,” she replied to Gabriel Attal.
“Gabriel Attal is wrong on a certain number of aspects”
Before adding that “in [ce] moment of gravity”, Gabriel Attal “should have stayed [ministre de] National Education”, where he notably banned the wearing of the abaya at school. According to Malika Sorel, “the school plays an extremely important role, but the family [passe] Before. We tend to think that citizenship is built in school, this is false. Citizenship is first built in the family and this has been highlighted by a lot of research work”, puts forward number 2 on Jordan Bardella’s list. “What is transmitted in the family, if it is in opposition with the project and with what the teachers transmit to the school, the child will spontaneously have to arbitrate between the figure of the teacher and the figure of the parent. And you can imagine that the child will choose his parent.”
According to her, “Gabriel Attal is trying to understand what is happening and he is wrong on a certain number of aspects: for example, he says that [la violence] is the result of the loneliness of young people. This is absolutely false. It is precisely because they live within a group and the group forces them to behave in such a way that the State has prevented emancipation. It’s a bad diagnosis,” concludes Malika Sorel at the microphone of the Grand Rendez-vous.