“We will have to relearn ourselves, to really punish…”
His voice breaking at the announcement of the death of Shamseddine, a young teenager beaten up near his establishment, the centrist mayor of Viry-Châtillon only said a few words, heavy with bitterness, thrown onto our screens, before disappearing into the great media whirlwind. A few sentences without emphasis, whispered rather than spoken, hiccuped between tears. Far from the martial declaration, like a painful flash, a confession: we failed, and, in this flaw, this denial, the unspeakable grew. Shamseddine, 15 years old, a diligent schoolboy, according to his teachers, massacred after class by a gang of hooded young people; Samara, 13 years old, who dresses
“European style”,
harassed and lynched by several teenagers near her school… The monster is hungry. Hyperviolence is now the work of younger and younger adolescents, young boys, but also girls; she came in from...
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