For his hundredth day in Matignon, Gabriel Attal chose the bereaved town of Viry-Châtillon, this town in Essonne recently marked by the death of Shemseddine, 15, beaten near his college, to deliver a
“speech on authority at the heart of the Republic”
, before defending his entire action as Prime Minister during an evening interview on BFMTV.
“Authority is too often defied by a minority of our adolescents
,” declared the Prime Minister, referring to
“violence sometimes unleashed without rules
. ”
“France is hurting part of its youth. I want these dramas to stop. I'm talking about a spiral, an addiction, and no, we can't excuse it
. Attal believes that
“very often the first victim of youth violence is young people themselves”
. And to continue
“We need a burst of authority”
.
“The Republic strikes back. We need all the good will to achieve lasting order,”
continued the Prime Minister.
Gabriel Attal, who is accompanied by Ministers Nicole Belloubet (Education) and Éric Dupond-Moretti (Justice), Minister Delegate Sarah El Haïry (Childhood, Youth, Families) and Secretary of State Sabrina Agresti-Roubache (City and Citizenship), previously spoke with the teams and beneficiaries of the MJC de Viry.
Thursday morning, the Prime Minister reaffirmed his
“total”
determination in a video published on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“In a context where there are difficulties, where there are French people who doubt, who suffer, who are worried, we manage to talk to each other
,” assured the head of government.
“Everything cannot be resolved in one day
,” he warned.
The mayor of Viry-Châtillon, Jean-Marie Villain (Les Centristes) said on RTL that he was
“happy that the Prime Minister is coming to talk with young teenagers and presidents of associations”
.
A little more than three months after his appointment, the former Minister of Education intends to follow his general policy declaration. He then returned to the urban riots of rare violence which had set cities and neighborhoods ablaze at the beginning of the summer of 2023.
While
“the violence of last July deeply marked our country”
, with among the rioters
“young people, sometimes very young, who seemed to have already cut ties with our society”
,
“we must enforce authority everywhere”
, he explained on January 30 before the National Assembly. Before launching his famous
“you break, you repair, you dirty, you clean, you challenge authority, we teach you to respect it”
.