France is threatening to make parents “pay” for repairs to the trail of destruction that rioting youths have left across the country.
In what has been branded a warning to Britain and a wake-up call over mass migration, youths have “lynched” police officers, destroyed school buildings, set fire engines alight and attacked members of the public across the country.
The far-left-fuelled violence is thought to have left French taxpayers facing a damages bill worth more than €30million (£25million).
France’s Justice Minister has proposed a radical solution.
Gerald Darmanin has asked prosecutors to hold parents civilly liable for damage their children have caused so they can “pay for the repairs”.
“It’s not the minor who pays, it’s the parents… Today it’s also a problem with parents,” he said.
Making them at fault would be “much more useful than imprisonment”, he said.
“When high schools are destroyed, when bus shelters are attacked, when transport is attacked, we now demand the civil responsibility of the parents,” he insisted.
Since the start of the rioting, around 2,000 people have been taken into custody – 90 per cent of whom are under 18.
In a statistic which shatters claims the youths are protesting against conditions in the classroom, a third of those arrested were detained for violence against individuals.
But where youths have targeted their schools, the repair bills have shot up into seven or eight figures.
The far-left-fuelled violence is thought to have left French taxpayers facing a damages bill worth north of €30million
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National Rally president Jordan Bardella has said the violence ‘illustrates what France has become after decades of laxity and mass immigration’
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According to estimates from the Ile-de-France, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France and Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes regions, the damage to schools alone has cost more than €38million.
In the Ile-de-France region – which includes Paris, and is home to 468 schools, President Valerie Pecresse estimated the cost to sit at €7million.
The president of the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, Fabrice Pannekoucke, estimated the damage on Friday at “between €25million and €30million across 300 high schools.
The President of the Grand Est region, Franck Leroy, said he was facing a bill of nearly €1million.
“We have gone from student protests” to a question of “public order,” Mr Darmanin added.
He warned of even more “urban violence” across the weekend – culminating in an ominous national day of mobilisation on Tuesday.
Thugs have beaten their own teachers in footage which has sparked outrage online
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And he repeeated his warnings about the leaders of the far-left France Unbowed party (LFI), accusing them of trying to co-opt the high school student movement and inciting violence.
He described Manuel Bompard, the movement’s coordinator, as a “firefighter-arsonist”
And he accused LFI’s presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon of spouting “extremely violent remarks” before finally “changing his tone, too late.”
Law-abiding French onlookers have been left stunned by the scenes of the last week.
One video from the carnage showed pack of thugs chasing a policewoman through the streets before attacking as she lay on the ground.
Yobs have been seen setting deodorant alight to use as makeshift flamethrowers against women.
Yobs have been seen setting deodorant alight to use as makeshift flamethrowers against women
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Others have beaten teachers in the street.
National Rally president Jordan Bardella said the footage of the policewoman “lynched on the ground… illustrate what France has become after decades of laxity and mass immigration”.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said he was “horrified by the violence” surging on the streets of France.
He warned: “This is what happens when hard-left politicians allow thuggery to spiral out of control. This will never happen in Britain under Reform.”
While his home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf said the scenes should serve “as a warning to Britain”.
He said: “Unless we have political leaders brave enough to stand up to these people and take action, scenes like the ones in France will come to Britain too. Britain needs Reform.”
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