The Assembly approves Attal’s text before a last vote in the Senate – Liberation

The deputies adopted this Tuesday, May 13, a Gabriel Attal bill to tighten the justice of minors and « Manage » Parents, before Its final adoption scheduled for Monday in the Senate. The text, which was the subject of an agreement between the two chambers, was adopted with 341 votes against 187, with the support of the central block, despite a handful of abstentions, and the extreme right. The whole left voted against, denouncing a text going against the founding principles of the justice of minors.

« It is a very important step for the fight against delinquency of minors»»reacted Gabriel Attal, leader of Renaissance deputies, at the Palais Bourbon, saying herself « convinced » that youth have « Need a frame ». After dissolution « Who cut my government’s work in his momentum, we have managed to bring this text to achieve »welcomed the former Prime Minister, deploring violence « Increasingly unbridled among young people »sometimes used as « cannon fodder » by adults.

The text provides in particular for the creation of a civil fine for parents who would not respond to summons to hearings, or the decree creation of an immediate appearance procedure for young repeat offenders from 16 years old.

Another flagship device: the inversion of the principle of « the minority excuse », according to which a minor is sanctioned less severely than an adult. From the age of 16, this will become the exception that should be motivated by the judge and no longer the rule, for cases of recurrence punished by at least five years’ imprisonment.

“Some are concerned about an alleged reversal of the educational logic of our justice of minors. It is notsaid the Minister of Relations with Parliament Patrick Mignola. It is not a question of judging more severely, but of judging faster, more precisely and more usefully. ”

It is not the analysis that the left, resolutely opposed to the text. « Childhood professionals are unanimous to condemn the ATAL bill, considered populist, simplistic, regressive, repressive, in short very dangerous »castigated Colette Capdevielle (PS). « Treating a minor as an adult is an additional abuse that we are going to do with children ».

Insoumise France, which unlikely defended a motion of rejection of the text, the socialists and the environmentalists have promised to seize the Constitutional Council.

For the national rally, Sylvie Josserand considered that it was a « Yet umpteenth reform without scale » reflecting « The author’s desire to display »but she voted to front « Emergency ».