Social networks will be prohibited for under 15 in « a few months », warns Emmanuel Macron – Liberation

He had already made this announcement, But without fixing deadline. Emmanuel Macron said this Tuesday, June 10, that France will prohibit social networks with children under the age of 15 if, by « A few months »if this is not done at European level.

« We must prohibit social networks under 15 »hammered the head of state on France 2 after that a supervisor was fatally stabbed In the morning by a 14-year-old student at the entrance to a college in Nogent, Haute-Marne. “I give us a few months to get European mobilization. Otherwise (…) We start to do it in France. We can’t wait ”he said.

On the move to Nogent this Tuesday at the beginning of the afternoon, and while the judicial inquiry is just beginning, the Minister of Education Elisabeth Borne said « Naturally continue to look for any measure that can allow us to help avoid such dramas »evoking the already initiated hardening of disciplinary procedures, school medicine or the fight against addiction to screens and social networks.

In May, Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to be imposed on adolescents an age verification to register on social networks, believing that there is « A youth that has been struck » by these platforms. “It is a competence that is to Europe. Behind, we have to engage in parallel a European fight, but I think you have to do it. It is one of my priorities ”he had launched.

Shortly before, the minister delegate in charge of digital Clara Chappaz had affirmed that France was given « Three months » For « Mobilize its European partners » on one « European Agreement » Binding social networks to verify the age of adolescents, failing which the government would take sanctions. « Social networks, before 15, is no », She insisted in the gallery on Sunday.

The President of the Republic, which had appointed a screens committee made up of experts to look at the issue of the use of screens by adolescents, had already pleaded, in June 2024, in favor of a ban on social networks at under 15, and a prohibition of the telephone for children under 11.

A law on digital majority, adopted in the summer of 2023, has already been adopted and requires a parental authorization for access to social networks under 15, but it has never come into application, due to the lack of certainty on its compliance with European law.