Maurice Berger is a child psychiatrist, author of
Sur la violence gratuit en France.
Adolescents, hyperviolent people, testimonies and analyzes
(L'Artilleur, 2019).
LE FIGARO.
- We have recently seen the increase in violence between young people belonging to rival gangs.
Does this violence have, in your opinion, at least in some of its aspects, an unprecedented character?
In what?
Is it for lack of empathy?
Maurice BERGER.
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The ethnic or tribal aspect of the territory of the gang is new, as well as the fact of hitting to the end.
It is no longer a question of showing that we are the strongest by beating, by humiliating, we must annihilate the other.
This lack of “final” restraint is linked to a total lack of empathy, indifference to what the other feels, which leads to an absence of guilt.
The assailants literally “don't give a damn” about what happened to the victim, even if she was dead.
It is very unsettling for professionals.
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Some attribute the rise in violence to
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