The French president has linked a recent fatal school stabbing to youth violence fuelled by online platforms.
France will block social media access for children under 15 “within a few months” if the EU does not take coordinated action, French President Emmanuel Macron stated following a deadly knife attack at a local school.
“We must ban social media for those under 15,” Macron told the broadcaster France 2 on Tuesday.
Hours earlier, a 14-year-old student attacked a 31-year-old teaching assistant during a school bag check for weapons in Nogent in eastern France. He then injured a police officer with the same knife and was arrested at the scene, according to the National Gendarmerie.
“I’m giving us a few months to get the European mobilization going. Otherwise… we’ll start doing it in France. We can’t wait,” Macron said.
The student, described as well-behaved and with no prior issues, had participated in anti-bullying activities and came from a stable family. The victim, a mother of two, had reportedly worked at the school since September.
Macron said social media was one of the factors to blame for violence among young people as the incident was not an isolated case. In April, a high school student in western France fatally stabbed a girl and injured three boys before being arrested.
Writing on X after the interview, Macron said such regulation was backed by experts. “Platforms have the ability to verify age. Do it,” he wrote.
Earlier this year, 200 schools in France began piloting a “digital break,” barring students under 15 from using smartphones during school hours. The Education Ministry also stepped up school security, with random bag checks leading to 186 knife seizures in two months this spring.
Spain and Greece are also backing a plan to require age verification technology on all internet-connected devices. The proposal would make such verification mandatory for platforms such as Facebook and X.
The European Commission and several EU states are developing pilot programs to test age checks and parental controls. However, progress is being slowed by differing regulations across EU countries and the ease with which users can access social media platforms from outside the bloc.
In Russia, restrictions introduced in September ban students from using mobile phones in schools, allowing exceptions only in emergencies.
It is not true that student was ” well behaved”. That is what the msm tell.
He seems to have prior to this have tried to stangle another student and punched some others.
As for social media, the french government (and the EU) are looking for pretexts or ” reasons” to control them.
Remember what happened to Pavel Durov
Ban Social Media for media savvy kids, yeah that’s gonna work… 😂😂😂
Ban Macron and his husband. They are the ones destroying France.
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Macron conveniently ignores the fact that France ratified the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. Article 13 states “the child shall have the right to freedom of expression, this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child’s choice”.
Scenario-
Criminals groom a minor child to ‘come into the fold of the ‘gang’ or whatever cartel is in place.
The adult gang members know that if they use their phones for calls, texting or access to ‘social media’, then their criminal activities will be quickly picked-up by police & intelligence agencies.
Enter the minor child who has a phone / iphone, tablet, laptop, etc.
Since the adult gangsters cannot transmit data to other gang members without such being known to law enforcement, they then recruit the kids and THEIR phones / social media accounts to relay messages, as the MINOR CHILD cannot be prosecuted as a adult would in using ‘social media’ to convey messages to the greater gang(s).
THAT IS WHY THE GOVERNMENTS WANT TO BAN MINORS AND UNDER A CERTAIN AGE FROM SOCIAL MEDIA- THEY ARE BEING USED AND PAID BY THE GANGS TO SERVE AS RELAY STATIONS FOR MESSAGING as their phones do not arouse suspicion and the attention of government entities.