Blockade of high schools: social networks in the crosshairs of elected officials and law enforcement

How can we reduce the level of violence that accompanies the blockade of high schools? Nicolas Isnard, the LR mayor of Salon-de-Provence and the president of the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, has his idea. “We must temporarily ban access to social networks, those that young people use to launch actions against establishments and teaching staff. All the leaflets and videos broadcast on these circuits have an amplifying effect and push young people to commit abuses,” he denounces.

With these networks temporarily out of service, the elected official is convinced that the high school in his town would not have been burned down last Saturday. A blockage which would also have prevented the circulation on the web of a leaflet demanding the execution of a teacher from his region. On this document, since withdrawn, we read derisory recriminations: “too much homework, not enough time to eat”. But also a real call for murder: “Let’s kill him, let’s burn him. »