With or without EU: France will ban social networks for children under 15

New mortal attack with knife at school was a drop of water: smaller “will not buy knife again on the internet”. Macron says France “can’t wait: there will be a few months for European mobilization, otherwise…”

The French government has announced several measures against violence in adolescents, including the ban on social networks for children under 15, following that of a school vigilante during a backpack control.

French President Emmanuel Macron guaranteed on television that “A young man of fifteen can no longer buy a knife on the internet” He added that France will ban social networks for children under 15 if, within “a few months”, this is not done at the European level.

“I defend the ban on social networks for children under 15 and we can do so, because all platforms have the possibility, through facial recognition for identification, to verify age,” said the French president.

“There will be a few months for European mobilization, otherwise we will begin to do it in France. We can’t wait“Macron warned Brussels.

Prime Minister François Bayrou at the same time and in another television channel, according to the French news agency, France-Presse (AFP), promised prohibit “immediately” the sale of all knives to minorsalso announcing that a verification of the age of those who receive orders made online will be made.

The measures announced by the French government arise after the death of a school assistant, at the hands of a 14 -year -old student in a school in northeastern France. Melanie, 31, the mother of a four -year -old boy, was killed violently by the minor during a backpack magazine in front of the Nogent city school.

The pedagogical assistant was “simply doing her work, receiving students at the entrance of the school,” she told France24 Elisabeth Allain-Morno, secretary-general of the Se-Unsa Teachers Union, which shares the “immense pain” before the episode.

“Wave of meaningless violence”

Searches like Melanie did at the fatal moment began to be made in France in March due to the episodes of this type, such as Nantes in April, where one with a knife and made serious injuries in the school room.

In March, France had already imposed random backpack controls in schools, then a fight that resulted in the death of a 17 -year -old in front of a secondary school near Paris.

Between March 26 and May 23, 6,000 controls in France resulted in the seizure of 186 knives and 587 disciplinary councils They were carried out in total for possession of knives, according to the Ministry of National Education.

The representatives of the parents of the students and the teachers, for their part, required better supervision and regretted the lack of nurses and school doctors.