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"Youth ultraviolence, the new barbarism"

2021-03-22T21:01:31.486Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Laurence de Charette. Fatal brawls, armed battles, bloody beatings, beaten police officers, attacked teachers… The simple chronicle of police activity no longer leaves room for the euphemistic speeches that have taken the place of a hide-and-seek for so many years. Whatever the Minister of Justice says, the violence of minors has crossed a threshold that professionals describe with the sad precision of witnesses on the


Fatal brawls, armed battles, bloody beatings, beaten police officers, attacked teachers… The simple chronicle of police activity no longer leaves room for the euphemistic speeches that have taken the place of a hide-and-seek for so many years.

Whatever the Minister of Justice says, the violence of minors has crossed a threshold that professionals describe with the sad precision of witnesses on the ground.

After the murder of Alisha, after the lynching of young Yuriy, after the nights of urban riots in Blois, after, after… They make a triple and terrible observation.

First of all, violence plagues younger and younger adolescents, it takes root as soon as they leave childhood and often before.

Nothing, then, seems able to stem it: it has, in reality, changed in nature.

Confronted with aggressors devoid of guilt or empathy towards the victims, devoid of this ultimate inner limit which alone can hold back the arm of the one who no longer fits in the order

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Source: lefigaro

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