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Gang war in Ile-de-France: what solutions to stop this escalation of violence?

2021-03-01T20:25:43.222Z


As the clashes increase, the government announced on Monday that it would implement a renewed plan to fight against phe


Are we powerless in the face of the phenomenon of rival gangs?

The question is more relevant than ever as two teenagers were killed last week in Essonne.

In 2020, the number of clashes - more than 80% in Ile-de-France and in particular in the outer suburbs - increased by 24% compared to 2019.

This Monday, the ministers of National Education, the Interior and Justice organized a meeting attended by rectors, prosecutors and prefects.

Objective: to renovate the band plan initiated in 2010. The copy must be presented by May 1st.

Here are their avenues of work, commented on by actors in the field.

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“For years, we have been able to defuse a large number of conflicts by discussing with young people at the slightest confusion, underlines a mother from a working-class district of Val-de-Marne.

The problem today is that it's happening on social media without anyone knowing it.

Of course we would have to keep a watch.

But who takes care of it?

It would take a lot of resources for that.

There are not enough police officers on the ground already.

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For Sophie Venetitay, unionist at SNES-FSU and teacher in a high school in Montgeron (Essonne), "the question is who to contact when we have signs that tell us that we must sound the alarm bells".

Because schools often mix up young people from opposing gangs and neighborhoods and are places of meeting, of tension.

“With our means, we try as best we can to alert.

But there is a real groundwork to be done upstream, continues the teacher.

Because sometimes, we are aware that altercations within establishments are not trivial altercations.

We should take the time to see each student concerned and have the means to support them.

We must also see how we associate all the players.

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"It is no coincidence that the phenomenon is increasing while we are living through a health crisis," analyzes a field activist in a popular district of Val-de-Marne.

Most of the structures which normally take care of adolescents are closed.

There is an idleness which has disastrous consequences.

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"This situation exacerbates certain behaviors", confirms Luc Carvounas, mayor (PS) of Alfortville, a town affected by the phenomenon with regular brawls involving the "enemies" of Charenton.

“We must give communities the means to carry out real social work.

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The development of video surveillance

"This is the key to solving business," believes this Val-de-Marne police officer whose constituency is more particularly affected by the phenomenon.

At our level, it is very difficult to work upstream.

It is more the responsibility of those who can engage in effective dialogue with adolescents.

On the other hand, our job is to stop those who are involved in the brawls.

As there are rarely complaints and brawls break out over futile motives, our main asset is video surveillance.

It is also necessary that cities are equipped with it, which is far from being the case everywhere.

If the Yuriy affair has been elucidated in Paris, it is in large part thanks to this.

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A more effective penal response

"In addition to the preventive aspect, the penal response must be adapted," analyzes Luc Carvounas, the mayor (PS) of Alfortville.

The situation always calmed down when the main protagonists could no longer crack down.

Today, I see teenagers showing off their electronic bracelets like a piece of jewelry.

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The mayor (LR) of the 15th arrondissement of Paris, Philippe Goujon, pleads in favor of severe criminal penalties.

“As long as we have not brought a firm penal response, a certain and prompt sentence, the efforts will be in vain.

We need a massive treatment of juvenile delinquency, ”said the city councilor.

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The publication ban is in particular one of the tools put forward by the government on Monday.

In the brawls that have grieved Essonne in recent days, young people who did not deliver the fatal blows were removed from Ile-de-France.

"It is a fairly effective measure which makes it possible to avoid the escalation of violence and the return matches", summarizes Caroline Nisand, public prosecutor in Evry-Courcouronnes.

Prevention through dialogue

Few minors are aware of the criminal risks they run by participating in a fight.

“Even if a youngster did not deliver the fatal blow, we can blame him for everything.

Because without the base of the pyramid, there is not the top of the pyramid.

It takes time to explain this to minors.

But it is fundamental ”, points out the Parisian children's judge Lucille Rouet, national secretary of the Syndicate of the magistracy.

Yazid Kherfi, the founder of the association Médiations nomades, believes that dialogue must be central. “Young people need to learn to deal with conflict other than through violence. They lack education in non-violence. Because violence is always a failure ”, argues this mediator, who goes to the cities to help the municipalities to prevent the phenomena of urban violence. Justice also intervenes before sanctions in the framework of local individualized monitoring units (CLSI). “The situations of each minor are studied to prevent the passage to the act, supports Caroline Nisand, the public prosecutor in Evry-Courcouronnes. I proposed that the CLSI be extended to clashes between gangs. "

Source: leparis

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