“Gabriel Attal is fully committed to a repressive, not preventive, logic” | EUROtoday

Marco Oberti, professor of sociology at Sciences Po and researcher on the analysis heart on social inequalities, deciphers the speech on youth entitled “For a burst of authority”, delivered by the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, Thursday April 18 in Viry -Châtillon (Essonne). He notes an “assumed logic” of concentrating on “individual responsibilities” whereas obscuring any contextualization of the phenomena of violence.

When the Prime Minister designates “some of our adolescents. And only part of it,” what youth is he speaking about?

Without saying it clearly, he primarily evokes the youth of working-class neighborhoods: when he speaks of “identity withdrawal”, “entryism of ideologies contrary to the Republic”, or when he cites boarding colleges “far from his neighborhood” … Likewise, when he proclaims that “all middle school students will be educated every day of the week between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., starting with priority neighborhoods and priority education networks”.

When he says he desires to struggle in opposition to separatisms, he truly solely cites one, “Islamist separatism”, at no time does he point out different separatisms, equivalent to academic separatism or the seek for -self residential, practiced primarily by the higher courses. He denounces the “frantic individualism” of younger individuals and even speaks of “individual secessionism”: is he additionally pondering of the rich courses? To all types of frenzied individualism?

What do you keep in mind from the measures talked about?

What is placing is the repressive tone and the emphasis positioned on particular person duty to the detriment of the contexts by which the phenomena of city violence are expressed. And the options proposed: extra punishments, sanctions, penalties, fines. The Prime Minister is totally dedicated to a repressive logic, with little or no preventive motion. When he says he desires to “get to the root of the problem”, he’s concentrating on people: adolescents themselves, but additionally dad and mom and households. It is a bias that he assumes from the outset, undoubtedly in opposition to what he calls “the professionals of excuses”.

However, though particular person duty should not be uncared for, it can’t be disconnected from social environments. Gabriel Attal makes no allusion to the phenomena of socio-residential and academic segregation, though they’re so essential, as we’ve proven with Maela Guillaume-Le Gall in “The territories of the riots, urban segregation at the heart of the violence” [article publié dans La Vie des idées, le 12 avril]. It is even Gabriel Attal himself who proposes to loosen up the constraint of the SRU regulation [loi Solidarité et renouvellement urbain, qui impose notamment aux communes un minimum de 20 % de logements sociaux] by totally integrating intermediate housing.

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