The political scientist and director of the “Opinion” department at Ifop answered questions from Lorrain Sénéchal and Agathe Lambret, Monday July 17, 2023.
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Jérome Fourquet, political scientist and director of the “Opinion” department at Ifop, was the guest of 8:30 am franceinfo, Monday July 17, 2023. He answered questions from Lorrain Sénéchal and Agathe Lambret on the state of France after the riots.
Riots after Nahel’s death: “CIt is an illusion to think that there is a single factor”
“It is in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods that this conflagration has taken, first recalled Jérome Fourquet, co-author of France before our eyes (Editions du Seuil). “For a crisis of this magnitude, it is illusory to think that there is a single factor”, then specified the political scientist on franceinfo. In particular, he noted a phenomenon of identification with Nahel of most young people who went to the streets: “They were about the same age, the average age is 17, it’s an overwhelming majority of boys and it’s also often young people who come from two or three generations of immigration” .
“An expectation in terms of the President of the Republic speaking“
After the riots which followed the death of Nahel, in Nanterre, there is among the French “an expectation in terms of the President of the Republic speaking“, also assures the director of the “Opinion and business strategies” department of Ifop. That’s not all: according to Jérome Fourquet, there is also an expectation among the French “in terms of announcements on a number of measures that could be taken to try to reassure them about a resumption of control by the politicians“.
If he did not speak on the occasion of the National Day, Emmanuel Macron promised that he will make “a point around July 14” to take stock of the 100 days to relaunch his five-year term.
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