The various right-wing mayor of Poissy (Yvelines), Karl Olive, voted Monday evening in city council for the suspension or even the abolition of certain municipal aid to "make
the families of delinquents responsible
", according to the deliberation consulted by AFP.
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Adopted by 36 votes out of 39, this decision follows “
repeated acts of violence
” over the past six months, according to this document: bus clashes, brawls between young people, throwing mortar fireworks on the police or again attack with the ram car and fire of an associative room.
Calling himself "
very straddling the reciprocity between rights and duties
", the mayor of Poissy Karl Olive targets "
the age group between 12 and 17 years, very virulent
", He explains to AFP.
At first, from the first reminder to the law, municipal aid for access to leisure will be suspended or even withdrawn in the event of a repeat offense, the elected official said.
Certain scholarships granted to middle and high school students - between 100 and 400 euros per month per student - are also affected by the decision.
On the other hand, these sanctions do not concern the school canteen, extracurricular activities and family allowances, so as not to “
call into question the vital daily life
” of families, qualified the mayor, also president of the Génération terrain association.
Karl Olive hopes by this decision "to
provoke a meeting with the parents
", like the mayor of Etampes, Franck Marlin, who was among the first to take this type of measure, in 1998.
"
At the time, it was controversial
", recognizes the mayor various right who however welcomes the "
50% success
" of this device in place for more than twenty years in his town and which allows him to be in touch every month with the families concerned.
The LR mayors of Rillieux-la-Pape (metropolitan area of Lyon) and Valence had taken such measures respectively in 2018 and last December.
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In 2005, the deputy mayor LR of Draveil (Essonne) Georges Tron had decided to suspend municipal aid to the families of young perpetrators of violence, when Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of the Interior, had revived the debate on the abolition family allowances for the families of young offenders.
