President Emmanuel Macron has insisted, this time on The Economistthe magazine of globalitarian elites, which is willing to send troops to Ukraine if the Russians break the front and the Government of kyiv asks for it. Such warmongering is astonishing when the French Army has been unable to eliminate the jihadists in the Sahel and is being expelled by the junta of Mali and Niger; and also when the Gendarmerie cannot control the suburbs of big cities.
Juvenile crime has become one of the greatest concerns of the Republic and citizens. And also in one of the biggest failures of the Macron Government, he was re-elected president in 2022 by more than 58% of voters. All the warnings and measures taken by the Administration are incapable of stopping the increase in insecurity.
As in the rest of Western Europe, In France, violent mafias have been established with impunityas the Mocro Mafia, which Europol calculates at 821 organizations. In addition, illegal immigrants from Africa, Asia and America continue to enter, whom, instead of expelling, NGOs and the Administration provide assistance and give money. The Council of State, a kind of Constitutional Court, annulled several articles of a restrictive immigration law approved last year by a large majority of the Assembly.
In Paris, which this summer will host the Olympic Games, 77% of the violations resolved in 2023, that is, with the perpetrators identified and arrested, were committed by foreigners.
Given the incapacity of the French State, some mayors have decided to resort to curfews in their cities, which are already applied in some non-European French territories. This measure was annulled by the Council of State in 2018. Instead, the body approved the curfew in 2020 and 2021, during the covid pandemic, although the Government itself acknowledged that it did not prevent the spread of infections.
On April 23, the right-wing Robert Ménard, mayor of Béziersa city in Occitania of about 72,000 inhabitants, known in France for its statements against political correctness, approved the curfew for those under 13 years of age. In their municipality, they will not be able to be on the street between 11 at night and six in the morning without the company of their parents. The Minister of the Interior supported the measure and the example has spread.
On May 1, the restriction on various neighborhoods of Nice and will continue until after summer. In the fifth city of France, with a population of more than 350,000 inhabitants, the curfew for those under 13 years of age It was applied in previous years and the current mayor, Chistian Estrosi, from Macron’s party, has recovered it.
Why does the order affect minors under 13 years of age when Police statistics indicate that most juvenile crime is committed by adolescents between 15 and 17 years old.? Because the French Penal Code sets the age of consent at 13 years, that is, below it minors are not criminally responsible. The gangs use them to initiate them into criminality and attribute crimes to them.
Nice local police will arrest minor offenders and their parents will have to pick them up at the police station. Fines may be claimed from adults and, in the event of a repeat offense, parental rights may be withdrawn and they may be put on trial.
These news have not appeared on the front pages of the newspapers published in Paris or Provence., nor were the figures for burned cars last New Year’s Eve published. This is the type of press that people want. progressive governmentswhether French or Spanish.