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Juvenile delinquency: "The new barbarities"

2022-04-06T19:20:22.385Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Laurence de Charette. It is a long time ago when presidential candidates clashed over the figures of juvenile delinquency! The explosion of violence and the rejuvenation of its perpetrators - two intimately linked movements - are no longer seriously contested. And for good reason: day after day, the chronicle of miscellaneous events reveals the unimaginable: schoolgirls massacring a family with scissors, murders betwee


It is a long time ago when presidential candidates clashed over the figures of juvenile delinquency!

The explosion of violence and the rejuvenation of its perpetrators - two intimately linked movements - are no longer seriously contested.

And for good reason: day after day, the chronicle of miscellaneous events reveals the unimaginable: schoolgirls massacring a family with scissors, murders between young adolescents, rapes perpetrated at the end of childhood, gang battles with iron bars... dramas of such savagery that it remains inconceivable to the consciousness of ordinary mortals.

We can only bitterly regret the missed opportunity that was the campaign, and the weakness of the projects of the candidates on the question of education.

Out of the debate, barbarism has now entered the culture: the violence of young adolescents, it is not the politicians, nor the magistrates, but the cinema which speaks about it best today: in quick

succession Les Misérables,

then

Bac north,

two films with resounding success, endeavored to describe the confrontation between the teenagers and the forces of order in the…

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Source: lefigaro

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