Posted on 07/07/2023 10:31:28 PM PDT by algore
Over the last week, protesters have lit thousands of cars on fire, attacked schools, town halls, police stations, banks and businesses, and set nearly a thousand buildings ablaze.
Some in the Paris suburb of L'Hay-les-Roses rammed a burning car into the mayor's home. Estimates of the damage have been projected to be about $1.1 billion.
As a result, thousands of young people have been arrested since the rioting began in the days after 17-year-old Nahel M. was killed on June 27. According to France's Interior Ministry, the average age of those arrested is 17.
The crisis has exposed deep rancor within marginalized and often low-income communities over discrimination — Nahel is of North African descent — and a general lack of opportunity.
President Emmanuel Macron has mostly blamed social media for the devastation, but he has also claimed that video games have inspired copycat violence and vandalism.
"It sometimes feels like some of them are experiencing, on the streets, the video games that have intoxicated them," Macron said in a press conference on July 1.
He added that protesters are using Snapchat and TikTok to organize themselves and spread "a mimicking of violence, which for the youngest leads to a kind of disconnect from reality."
Concerns that video games promote shootings, massacres or rioting are now about half a century old; it has been traced back to the 1976 release of Death Race, an arcade video game which put players behind the wheel of a car to mow down humanoid figures for points.
The argument gained renewed traction in the 1990s with the release of much more realistic first-person shooter games.
Just three months ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva blasted video games for "teaching kids to kill."
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Muslims like video games. Who knew. Hmmm.
Video games?? lol
Nice Luger.
Having crimes committed by juveniles in the hope
that they won't be tried as adults.
They don't expect anyone to make the connection.
Minimum Ages of Criminal Responsibility in Europe
Persons under the age of 18 “able to understand what they are doing” are criminally responsible for the felonies, misdemeanours or petty offences of which they have been found guilty, and may be subject to measures of protection, assistance, supervision and education according to the conditions laid down by specific legislation. There is no absolute minimum age set at which children become able to be held criminally responsible, but a child will usually be considered to have “discernment” between the ages of 8 and 10.
Children aged 13 to 18 years can be criminally sentenced, including to prison terms and children aged 16 to 18 can in certain circumstances be subjected to adult sentences. [Criminal Code, Article 122-8; Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, “Juvenile Justice in France” May 2008]
A "mental" child with no “discernment” up to age 18?
There's the play.
How out-of-touch with reality must he be, to think that the French people will buy that one?
From the article not shown here, “
“Fueled by rage over the police killing of a teenager during a routine traffic stop June, throngs of young people in France have been lashing out against alleged racial profiling and calling for greater police accountability.
Over the last week, protesters have lit thousands of cars on fire, attacked schools, town halls, police stations, banks and businesses, and set nearly a thousand buildings ablaze”.
“...calling for greater police accountability”
How about accountability for themselves!
Time for Parental Advisory stickers?
No. No. No. It’s obviously Rock ‘n’ Roll music that is driving the riots.
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