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Only one in five French people say they understand violence against the police according to a survey. Which says a lot about the fracture that this risks leaving in society. This causes the disarray of the associations working in the neighborhoods.
In the suburbs where violence occurred after the death of Nahel, 17, there is a return to calm. Neighborhood associations are trying to better understand what happened. In Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône), the facilitators felt overwhelmed. “We always said to ourselves that we had a link with youth, a discourse, a certain lever and that in this situation, the more things flared up, the more we felt that we no longer had that lever.“explains one of them. This educator denounces the role of social networks in the spread of riots.
Women try to reason with young people
In Corbeil-Essonnes (Essonne), women tried to calm the young people down. According to them, some mothers fail to channel their teenagers. One of them believes that if the mother does not have time, because of her work, to educate her child, the street will take care of it.