[After chairing a crisis security meeting,
the
French president claimed they
were copying violence from games that had
“intoxicated” them.
He called on parents to keep troublemakers
off the streets before blaming
social media for the tumult and unrest
since Nahel M, 17, was killed by police
in Nanterre on Tuesday for driving away
at a police stop.
The head of state said that about a third
of the people arrested over three
nights of rioting were “young, or very young”.
“It’s the responsibility of parents to keep
them at home,” he said. “It’s not
the state’s job to act in their place.”
“We’ve seen them – Snapchat, TikTok and
several others – serve as places
where violent gatherings have been
organised,
but there’s also a form of
mimicry of the violence which for some
young people leads them to lose
touch with reality.
“You get the impression that for some
of them they are experiencing on the
street the video games that have
intoxicated them,” he added.]
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