Europe 1 with AFP 9:28 a.m., April 8, 2024, modified at 9:32 a.m., April 8, 2024
After a series of attacks, including one fatal, targeting adolescents, the government intends to "act at the first signs" of violence among young people, government spokesperson Prisca Thévenot said on Monday, referring to "the establishment of disciplinary advice" in primary school.
“We must be able to act before this degenerates,” declared government spokesperson Prisca Thévenot on France 2 this Monday, in reaction to the successive attacks last week. First of all that of Samara, 14 years old, severely beaten in front of her school in Montpellier; that of another teenager of the same age who fell into an ambush in Tours; but also and above all the attack on young Shemseddine, 15 years old, beaten to death in Viry-Châtillon (Essonne).
“Act at the first signs”
“If we arrive at such barbaric acts […] we have to look at what happens before” and “it is often at primary school level”, with “small facts which put together we say to ourselves 'this' is not very serious, it's childishness' but in fact they must be sanctioned directly", estimated Prisca Thevenot.
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“We must act from the first signs and therefore from primary school, for example with the establishment of disciplinary councils very early,” added the spokesperson, who sees this as a way to “empower all adults around the school. child” when “a lack of authority, a sentence that is too strong, a word that should not be said” occurs.
This proposal has already been put forward by the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, who again declared on Saturday in an interview with several regional press titles: "There is no disciplinary council as such in primary schools and I think that’s a question that arises.”