France faces an “immense” challenge, President Macron said after disclosing that three quarters of the children prosecuted over this summer’s riots were from single-parent families or in social care.
In an interview with Le Figaro’s weekly magazine, Macron said the figure underlined a breakdown of authority and a decline of trust in parents and schoolteachers, but also in democratic institutions.
His comments were an attempt to flesh out the Elysée’s view that parental failings lay behind the worst urban violence in France for 18 years.
He went to the Justin Trudeau school of crappy lying.
