Police cordon after the death of a 14-year-old teenager during a brawl between rival gangs in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, in Essonne.

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Thomas COEX / AFP

The Ministers of the Interior, Justice and Education are meeting Monday with prefects, prosecutors and rectors of Ile-de-France to respond to the phenomenon of brawls between young people.

This meeting scheduled from noon by videoconference was announced by Gérald Darmanin after the death of a schoolboy and a schoolboy, both aged 14, stabbed during different brawls, in Essonne on 22 and 23 February.

Upstream, the Minister of the Interior sent a note on Thursday to all the prefects of France asking them to “reactivate the plan to fight gangs”.

He asks them in particular to carry out before March 10 a "departmental diagnosis", with a "history" and a "mapping" of the clashes, the age of the young people involved or their use or not of weapons and social networks.

On the basis of this diagnosis and "depending on the importance of the phenomenon", the Minister asks the prefects to implement a "departmental plan of identification, support, preventive information and awareness of vulnerable groups" as well as resources. "Investigation and struggle" against gangs.

Local delinquency treatment groups

The Minister also recommends resorting "according to the context" to local groups for the treatment of delinquency on the subject of gangs, on the model of that set up in Paris, which associates the police, town hall and educational services under the aegis of the parquet.

According to the entourage of Eric Dupond-Moretti, the Ministry of Justice is counting on the use of “prohibitions on appearing” as an alternative to prosecution, currently being tested in Bobigny, Montpellier and Senlis.

They “work well and allow a young person to be removed from a gang,” assures those around the Keeper of the Seals.

This also highlights the promulgation on Saturday in

the Official Journal

of the new Code of Criminal Justice for Minors, which will come into force on September 30 and should make it possible to reduce trial times.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, 357 clashes between gangs were recorded in 2020 in France against 288 in 2019, which represents an increase of nearly 25%.

Three people were killed and 218 injured in these clashes.

Conversely, in Paris, they have declined in recent years, according to the Ministry of Justice, which recorded 112 gang phenomena in 2017, 99 in 2018, 89 in 2019 and 83 in 2020, as well as eight deaths between 2017. and 2020.

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