Take your children off the streets — French Pres. Macron orders parents as he blames riots on video games.
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, June 30, said violent videos games have “intoxicated” young people who are currently rioting in the country following the fatal police shooting of a teenager of North African descent.
Speaking after chairing a crisis security meeting on Friday, the 45-year-old head of state said about a third of the people arrested over the rioting were “young or very young”.
According to Aljazeera, he said: “It’s the responsibility of parents to keep them at home. It’s not the state’s job to act in their place.
We’ve seen them – Snapchat, TikTok and several others – serve as places where violent gatherings have been organised, but there’s also a form of mimicry of the violence, which for some young people leads them to lose touch with reality.
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You get the impression that for some of them, they are experiencing on the street the video games that have intoxicated them.”
