France plans to punish 'failing' parents whose children commit crimes: 'Clearly an issue of authority to be restored'



France, beset by roving gangs of destructive youths, is planning on punishing parents who fail to keep their children in line.

Aurore Bergé, French minister of solidarity and families, revealed in a recent interview with La Tribune that the government will require "failing" parents whose children engage in criminality to perform community service and make financial amends.

France, presently on its fifth wavering republic since 1792, is also establishing a commission aimed at helping citizens "meet the challenges of parenthood." The commission will be co-chaired by psychiatrist Serge Hefez, head of the family therapy unit at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, and Hélène Roques, a specialist on youth issues.

Bergé stressed over the weekend that "parents cannot be forgotten by our public policies. We need them, we have to deal with them. And it is on them that I want to rely as Minister of Solidarity and Families."

The French minister noted that these measures are a response, not to the recent anti-white mass stabbing perpetrated by a gang of young men, but rather to the summer race riots, which proved to be almost as destructive as the 2020 BLM riots in the United States.

In June, Nahel Merbouz, a 17-year-old motorist of Algerian and Moroccan heritage, reportedly flouted the demands of police to stop his rental vehicle after driving recklessly. After Merbouz ran a red light, he got stuck in traffic, enabling police to catch up with him. When the police leaned on his rental car and ordered him to stop, Merbouz elected instead to veer forward, prompting a lethal response from one of the officers.

Following the police-involved shooting, multitudes of Algerians and other French residents took to the streets to protest, pillage, and riot.

Hundreds of bank branches and thousands of stores were robbed. Thousands of vehicles were torched. Some buildings that survived the worst of World War II were reduced to rubble. One of the country's biggest libraries, full of cultural artifacts and millions of books, was burned to the ground. Hundreds of police were injured.

Justice Minister Eric Dupont-Moretti indicated on the first night of the riots that 30% of those detained by police were under the age of 18.

"We all remember the images of these mothers going out into the street in the evening to collect their children and put them back on the right path," said Bergé. "But it is striking to note that 30% of the rioters were minors and that 60% of them grew up in so-called single-parent families."

"We cannot focus on parenting only in the face of crises," continued Bergé. "The whole of society must take it on board."

The minister pressed the issue of absentee fathers, noting that fatherhood "can't just be about child support! Society has ended up accepting the fact that women take on certain tasks with children alone. A couple can separate but the family still lives: You don't leave your children."

The absence of a father in the household has long been understood to be a robust predictor of community levels of violence. A 2022 study published in the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology indicated that the likelihood of juvenile delinquency increases significantly when children are born and raised in single-parent households. This is especially true of children who grow up with only a biological mother.

As of 2016, an estimated 23% of French families with children under 18 were single-parent families. That figure appears to be climbing, having hit 25% in 2020.

Bergé noted that there is "clearly an issue of authority to be restored" and that it is neither "old-fashioned nor reactive to say so."

"Setting a framework, defining rules, embodying authority is for the benefit of our children," added the minister.

While the French government does not want to come across as "paternalizing or infantilizing," the family minister made clear that parents who fail to discipline their children will in turn be disciplined.

The Sunday Times reported that France already has laws in place allowing for the conviction of parents who fail to "fulfill their legal obligations ... to the extent of compromising the health, safety, morality and education of their child." Those found guilty could face up to two years in prison and a fine of roughly $32,254.

However, the initiative teased by Bergé, which builds on the suggestion of French parliamentarian Lionel Royer-Perreaut, will now have "failing parents" engage in community service tasks such as restoring public monuments, gardening, repairing vandalized buildings, and helping the elderly, reported the Sunday Times.

Extra to community service, the parents of children found guilty of damages will be required to make a financial contribution to a victims' association. Parents who fail to attend their children's hearings will also be fined.

Extra to penalizing negligent parents, France is looking to provide additional benefits to families and incentives to couples who might wish to have children.

"The family is the pillar of our society; today we clearly affirm it," concluded Bergé.

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French government warns that allegedly anti-white murder of French boy could be 'tipping point for French society'



A 16-year-old boy was savagely murdered at a French village's annual winter ball earlier this month. According to witnesses, the gang of young men responsible for the boy's death and the corresponding rampage on Nov. 18 made clear they were out to "stab white people."

In the days since, tensions in the European nation have begun to boil over, prompting the French regime to clamp down on so-called "far-right" groups and to urge citizens not to take the law into their own hands.

Olivier Véran, a socialist spokesman for the French government, stressed Tuesday, "We are lucid. There is a violent minority, which sows terror. But there is no justification for taking the law into your own hands. It is up to the rule of law to provide answers."

The demands for order issued by Véran and other officials are in response to alleged threats of vigilantism and protests loud with chants including, "Justice for Thomas," "Islam out of Europe," "Immigration kills," and "French, wake up, this is your home."

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Véran has acknowledged that Thomas' murder may amount to a "tipping point for French society," reported the Telegraph.

Given the French government's trouble containing Algerian race riots in July, which almost did as much damage to France as the BLM riots dealt to the United States throughout 2020, it's unclear what success the government will have in halting the pendulum on its return.

What's the background?

The French village of Crépol in the southwestern Drôme region had a winter ball on Nov. 18. Roughly 300 out of the village's 532 residents were in attendance. A gang of of approximately ten young men — reportedly from the epicenter of July's Algerian race riots — descended on the village dance, attacking 17 individuals in attendance between the ages of 16 and 65.

On their way in, the group of thugs stabbed a guard, slicing through his fingers.

According to France24, the attackers ultimately murdered a 16-year-old high school student named Thomas. A witness named Hugo indicated that Thomas was stabbed in the heart and throat.

One of Thomas' friends told Le Dauphiné Libéré newspaper that he heard a commotion outside where Thomas, a beloved rugby player who wasn't "the type to dance," had gone out for a smoke. Thomas' friend quickly went outside to investigate.

"I was stabbed in the shoulder and in the back," said the unnamed teen. "I saw my friend Thomas being stabbed. ... I saw another friend of mine get stuck in the back, I compressed his wound to make a tourniquet; he was hit in the kidney. It was horrific."

The teen recalled the attackers saying, "'We're here to stab white people.'"

According to prosecutors, eight other witnesses reported hearing the attackers signal anti-white hatred during their rampage.

The Telegraph reported that one witness told the French press, "There was a fight between the assailants and those who were brave enough to face them."

A young woman in attendance told Le Dauphiné Libéré, "I heard people say, 'It's crashing! It's crashing! They've got knives, leave!' ... There was blood everywhere. It was horrible, it wasn't something to experience at 16."

"It was a bloodbath," said another witness. "Youths from the suburbs surrounded the party hall, blindly stabbing people. ... One youth received a heart massage on the floor. It was chaos."

In addition to murdering Thomas, the outsiders injured eight revelers, two seriously. One of the two victims left in critical condition was stabbed several times in the throat.

The response

Martine Lagut, the mayor, stressed that the "gang turned up to kill."

"They didn't come to have fun but to harm," added the mayor.

Police spokeswoman Marie-Laure Pezan indicated the violence "was quite incredible for a village of 500 people."

Josette Place, a pensioner and member of Crépol's events committee, told the French press, "This wasn't a fight, it was an attack."

Government spokesman Véran said, "Thomas was 16 years old. He loved rugby, his family, his friends, whose pain and anger I share. He is a victim of the savagery that fell in Crépol. Suspects have been arrested. Justice will punish. Answers will be provided. We owe them."

Alex Vignon, the coach of Thomas' rugby team, said, "He was an endearing boy who had values that we instill in rugby."

The victim's rugby club, RC Romans-Péage, indicated they were visited by "barbarity and tragedy" and noted that the sport seemed trivial in the wake of Thomas' murder.

Days after the attack, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin revealed to French parliamentarians that police had arrested seven people believed to have had a hand in "this odious crime." A total of nine suspects are now in custody.

Three of the suspects are minors. The others are between ages 19 and 22.

France24 reported that the suspected killer was arrested near the city of Toulouse, some 250 miles away, during raids conducted by the country's elite GIGN unit.

Darmanin made clear, "People came from elsewhere, wanted to force their way into this party and stabbings started. It's called savagery," reported the Telegraph.

The interior minister added, "It is a general failure of our society. There is a need to rethink the framework of authority."

Despite the efforts of law enforcement to capture those responsible, protesters have taken to the streets demanding "justice for Thomas."

Over the weekend, around two dozen protesters were reportedly arrested, six of whom were fast-tracked through court proceedings and sentenced to several months in jail.

Fearing a "mobilisation within the exreme right ... would have us tip into civil war," Darmanin indicated the government is looking at clamping down on groups perceived to be far right and potentially even arresting their members, reported the Local.

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Race rioters have cost France almost as much as the 2020 BLM riots cost America



The race riots that kicked off in France last Tuesday following a police-involved shooting of a motorist of Algerian descent have proven ruinous for the national successor of the Fourth French Republic, which coincidentally collapsed in 1958 following a conflict with Algerians.

Thousands of buildings have been torched and thousands more have been looted. Historical sites have been razed and memorials desecrated.

The cost of the damage so far is reportedly closing in on that dealt to the United States by the 2020 BLM riots.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told BFMTV that rioters ravaged nearly 400 bank branches and 500 corner shops. As of Wednesday, the total number of looted stores was at least 1,000.

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Geoffrey Roux de Bézieux, the head of France’s largest employer federation, the Movement of the Enterprises of France, told Le Parisien that the rioters' modus operandi was "absolute violence. Everything was stolen, even from the cash registers, before setting fire to destroy."

Bézieux estimated the damage inflicted on the nation by the race rioters now exceeds €1 billion or $1.1 billion. This estimate does not reflect the financial impact on tourism.

"Videos of the riots, which have circulated around the world, degrade the image of the France. It's always hard to know if the impact will be lasting, but there will certainly be a drop in bookings this summer when the season was promising. Trips have already been canceled," said Bézieux.

By July 3, over 5,662 vehicles had been torched and over 1,000 buildings damaged, reported Le Parisien.

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TheBlaze previously reported that buildings that survived the worst of World War II have been reduced to rubble and cinders in recent days. One of the country's biggest libraries, which contained a wealth of cultural artifacts, including but not limited to millions of books, was similarly burned to the ground.

254 attacks were waged on law enforcement facilities, leaving 722 police personnel with injuries.

The worst of the violence and pillaging took place late on Thursday and Friday nights.

In the first six nights of the riots, police made 3,354 arrests throughout the country, including 1,282 in Paris.

The death of Nahel Merbouz, shot by police after reportedly ignoring their demands to stop his vehicle after driving recklessly, resembles in consequence another police-involved fatality that was seized upon in the West for its perceived racial significance.

In September 2020, Axios reported that the BLM riots inside the U.S. incurred $1 billion in damage and was the "most expensive in insurance history."

Fox Business indicated that this estimate was the result of figures originally sourced by the Insurance Information Institute from Property Claim Services, which tracks insurance claims related to civil disorder, and accounted only for damage from unrest incurred between May 26 and June 8, 2020.

Other estimates put the cost closer to $2 billion.

The Major Cities Chiefs Association revealed that of the 8,700 BLM-related events between May 25 and Jul 31 in MCCA member cities, 574 were declared riots.

One police officer was killed and 2,037 officers were assaulted or injured. At least 97 police cars were torched and another 300 were damaged.

RealClear Investigations reported that between 6 and 20 persons were killed in the riots.

16,241 arrests were made, and 2,385 incidents of looting and 624 arson incidents were reported inside that time period.

According to Newsweek, over 1,500 businesses were damaged in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, alone during the riots. Many businesses never recovered.

Other major cities across the country, including Chicago and New York City, similarly witnessed pillaging during the demonstrations.

Although the BLM riots may have been more costly than the recent rash of European violence, the French rioters are terrorizing above their weight class, per capita. After all, France is a significantly smaller nation with population only 20% the size of America's.

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Visitor logs show that Biden's White House has hosted several 'defund the police' activists



Despite attempting to publicly distance himself and his administration from the “defund the police” movement, President Joe Biden has kept his relationships with some of the most prominent individuals behind the far-left social justice movement.

Fox News reported that White House visitor logs revealed that several "defund the police" activists have visited the Biden White House and met with top aides over the course of the past year, despite the president’s insistence that he supports the country’s police forces.

Anti-police activists appear to have intimate access to the levers of power within the White House. Biden has even promoted leftists sympathetic to the movement to key positions within his administration.

Rashad Robinson, the president of the left-wing racial justice group Color of Change, visited the White House during the summer of 2021 to meet with one of the president’s top advisers.

Robinson is also a celebrater of the birthday of convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur. While commemorating Shakur’s birthday, Robinson called for leftist organizations to get “bolder” and “louder” in their demands for police abolition and their “plans for revolution.”

Color of Change has been one of the most active groups when it comes to advocating for the police to be defunded. In 2021, Color of Change was one of the leading voices behind the unsuccessful attempt to “dismantle” and replace the Minneapolis Police Department. This attempt was supported by a $500,000 grant from George Soros’ Open Society Policy Center.

“We know that policing doesn’t keep us safe, communities do. Policing doesn’t lead to thriving communities, investment does,” proclaimed a previous petition circulated by Color of Change.

It also said, “We must begin to envision the society that functions for ALL of us and we must begin by divesting from and dismantling the systems that unjustly harm Black people.”

Robinson also sits on the board of the Marguerite Casey Foundation, a Seattle-based left-wing grantmaking group, alongside Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. This group recently voted to expand its anti-police funding efforts.

Carmen Rojas, the president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation and a vocal defund-the-police advocate, visited the White House in December of 2021 and appeared to meet with Nia Page, a special assistant to the top Biden adviser with whom Robinson met.

In the spring of 2021, Rojas proclaimed, “We must be unwavering in our commitment to freedom. The best way to realize it is to defund the police and support abolition. Period.”

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