The "10,000 young people" plan: making interior jobs known to the most disadvantaged

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It is an ambitious plan that Gerald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, unveiled at the beginning of the week: to offer 10,000 young people internships, jobs or apprenticeships in all the trades that make up the Ministry of the Interior.

This plan is particularly aimed at young people from difficult neighborhoods.

Objective: to make the police better known and to offer prospects to these young people, in a difficult context due to the health crisis.

"It's a great chance that is offered to me"

At 22, William may have the chance of his life.

After the failure of his medical studies, he joined the preparatory class of the school for police officers in Lyon.

It was civic service, within the police, which made him discover this world to which nothing predestined him.

“In a single-parent family with five children, we are not necessarily the most lucky,” he explains to Europe 1. “With my financial possibilities, I could not follow this training at all. presented the possibility of entering the National School of the Police thanks to the program of equal opportunities. It is a good chance which is offered to me ", continues the young man.

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William's career is exactly what Place Beauvau wants to promote.

The Interior Ministry even wants to turn more to teenagers from difficult neighborhoods.

"It makes it possible to have a link between the young population of the district and the police, which is sometimes caricatured or poorly known on this fringe of the population", notes Jean-Pierre Merle, divisional commander of the police station of the 8th arrondissement of Lyon.

"Being at the heart of the system makes it possible to remove any prejudices that one might have upstream."

It is also a way of offering prospects to young people abused and weakened by the health crisis.