The mayor of Salon-de-Provence called for restricting minors' access to social networks due to protests

The mayor of the southern French commune of Salon-de-Provence, Nicolas Isnard, called for temporarily closing access to social networks for minors amid mass protests by high school students, BFMTV reported on Monday.

“The mayor of Salon-de-Provence, where a high school was set on fire over the weekend, made an appeal to the government. He asks to temporarily ban minors from accessing social networks,” the material says.

According to the politician, social networks enhance the coordination and spread of protest movements to such an extent that they sometimes turn into riots.

As the TV channel notes, it is footage of violent actions that receives the most views on the Internet. Calls for the continuation of demonstrations are still spreading online; there are more than 2.5 thousand such posts, BFMTV reports.