France riot - Macron appeals to parents, social media firms to end France riots. - Al Jazeera

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France riot - Macron appeals to parents, social media firms to end France riots. - Al Jazeera

The president says a third of those arrested during rioting over the police killing of a teenager are ‘very young’ people who are ‘intoxicated’ by video games.




French President Emmanuel Macron attends a government emergency meeting
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a government emergency meeting on June 30, 2023 [Yves Herman/pool via Reuters]

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged parents to keep child rioters off the streets and called on social media platforms to remove the “most sensitive” content related to the three nights of rioting sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager of North African descent.

Speaking after chairing a crisis security meeting on Friday, the 45-year-old head of state said about a third of the people arrested over the 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.”

Appealing to social media firms, Macron said: “Platforms and networks are playing a major role in the events of recent days.”

“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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