The authorities must “rot the holidays” of the “thugs” involved in the urban violence of the last few days, said this Wednesday, Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Ile-de-France region, who calls for a “shock of authority”, via in particular the lowering to sixteen years of the criminal majority.
“The average age of the hundreds of people who have been arrested is seventeen. The subject today is that we have juvenile justice which is not able to judge in immediate appearance “, nor ” to put them out of harm’s way, “said the former candidate. The Republicans in the presidential election on RTL.
A mandatory one-year prison sentence for attacks “on authority figures”
We must “punish them quickly and keep them away from their neighborhood”, declared the elected representative on the right, asking again to “double” the fifty or so closed centers for minors existing in France and to “lower the criminal majority to 16 years old”.
The Ile-de-France region, the most affected by the riots with 140 municipalities, “more than a hundred public buildings” and 400 businesses “burnt or ransacked”, is “always ready to pay” for this doubling on its territory, a- she pointed out.
In the same way, Valérie Pécresse calls for “a minimum mandatory prison sentence of at least one year” in the event of an attack on “authority figures”.
Lifting of anonymity and greater control of social networks
The leader of the first region of France also wants to “empower” the families of those who “put the souk”, “including on family allowances but also on social housing”. “I ask that mayors who can no longer take it can request by decree the eviction of a family whose children put the souk in the neighborhood,” she said.
Regarding the modus operandi of the perpetrators of urban violence, Valérie Pécresse says she does not understand “why we do not lift anonymity on social networks” or “why we do not establish criminal liability for platforms”.
Between China where “they control their social networks really well” and the “totally libertarian” culture of the United States, “we must invent a European model of control of social networks which respects freedoms but at the same time protects society”, she added.