The Minister of the Interior and Overseas intends to take up a proposal by Emmanuel Macron during the last campaign for the presidential election.
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Gérald Darmanin wants to tackle the delinquency of minors in Mayotte. Visiting the island, the Minister of the Interior and Overseas announced on Monday August 22 that he was going to make proposals to open “places of rehabilitation and recovery” for juvenile delinquents, supervised by soldiers. It takes up a proposal made by Emmanuel Macron during the last presidential election campaign and will make proposals to the Head of State “from next week”.
In particular, he mentioned discussions with the police and gendarmes who reported attacks by “11-year-old, 10-year-old, nine-year-old minors”armed with machetes and axes. “Today the magistrates, and this is quite normal, release them, since we do not put children in prison, but we must nevertheless offer them a place of punishment and education”, explained the Minister. For his part, Eric Dupond-Moretti announced Thursday the opening by 2024 of a closed educational center (CEF) in Mayotte, but these places are intended for young people aged 13 and over.
In addition, faced with the Mahorais for whom insecurity is a major daily fear, Gérald Darmanin also asked the Director General of the National Police “to study the possibility of using intermediate weapons, which we used here when there were riots, when the Raid came”, during scuffles with minors. He recalled that “Obviously, when you don’t apprehend minors, even extremely violent ones, (there is) no possibility of shooting live ammunition as you would when you are attacked by adults”.