The announcement made its small impact from the perch of the National Assembly.
Since then, things have been floundering.
Even the Minister of Justice, getting a little confused on the airwaves this Wednesday morning, had difficulty specifying this new future object at the disposal of juvenile justice: Work of educational interest, one of the key announcements from Prime Minister Gabriel Attal during his general policy speech on Tuesday.
It would be a question of repairing a hole in the racket and ensuring that we can better take care of minors aged 13 to 16, while delinquency is getting younger and the scale of sentences and sanctions is very limited for those under 16 years old.
The first unknown that this new provision raises is its legal nature.
The Chancellery affirms that this work of educational interest would be neither a sanction nor a penalty.
But it would enter the long list of educational measures and would include a teaching module, a civic module offering activities to…
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