French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and French Interior and Overseas Minister Gerald Darmanin arrive to attend a intermninisterial crisis unit (Cellule interministerielle de crise - CIC) meeting after riots erupted for the third night in a row across the country following the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed during a traffic stop in Nanterre by a French police officer, at the emergency crisis center of the Interior Ministry in Paris, France, June 30, 2023. (Photo by YVES HERMAN / POOL / AFP)
Nanterre, France: French President Emmanuel Macron is urging parents to keep teenagers at home to quell rioting spreading across France and says social media are fueling copycat violence.
After a second crisis meeting with senior ministers, Macron said Friday that social media are playing a "considerable role” in the spreading unrest triggered by the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old.
He said he wants social media such as Snapchat and TikTok to remove sensitive content and said that violence is being organized online. Of young rioters, he said: "We sometimes have the feeling that some of them are living in the streets the video games that have intoxicated them.”
