Education Minister Pap Ndiaye said on Sunday he was firmly opposed to the abolition of family allowances, a measure proposed on the right to respond to violence committed by minors during the riots, while showing himself open to sanctions which are “part of of pedagogy”.
The minister also considered it “abnormal, unfair and misleading” to “draw links between immigration and riots”, during an interview on Radio J. “That’s the vocabulary of the far right and unfortunately part of the right,” he commented.
Sanctions “are part of the pedagogy”
Regularly announced on the departure against a backdrop of rumors of a government reshuffle, Pap Ndiaye, Minister of National Education and Youth, said little about the riots that ignited the country, raising so many security, political and social issues. and educational.
“The school can do a lot and we do our part of the work but the parents must also accompany us,” he said. “We must appeal to the responsibility of parents” but also “help” those who have “specific difficulties”.
Regarding possible sanctions, he judged: “it’s important, it’s part of the pedagogy”.
The government is considering a specific fine for minors, on the model of the fixed fine for adults when they commit such acts. “It’s fast and efficient,” said Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Sunday.
Not sanctioning an entire family?
The Minister of Education, on the other hand, said he was opposed to the abolition of family allowances, which have “no effect” and “penalize an entire family”.
After the riots in reaction to the death of Nahel, 17, killed by a policeman in Nanterre on June 27, LR boss Eric Ciotti had called on the government to reduce or even eliminate family allowances to families on the basis of offenses committed by children for whom they are responsible, in particular in the event of repeated school absenteeism.
Asked about the words of the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which expressed its shock, after the death of Nahel, of Algerian origin, and claiming to be concerned about the safety of its nationals, Pap Ndiaye remarked that “the Algerian government does not does not particularly care about his own youth”. “If we look at the past decades, there is reason to ask questions,” he said, judging that Franco-Algerian relations remained “difficult”.