The prefect of Bas-Rhin, Jacques Witkowski, has decided to take strong action to get the young troublemakers in his department back in control. He sent a letter to parents to remind them of their responsibilities.
Should we use strong tactics to dissuade young people from burning cars or firing mortars on New Year's Eve? In Strasbourg, the prefect of Bas-Rhin decided to take the bull by the horns by sending a letter to the parents of the offenders arrested on this occasion. The idea is to remind them of their responsibilities and even, in certain cases, to sanction them.
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“I wonder about your ability to fulfill your parental obligations satisfactorily”
During the last New Year and the days preceding it, 70 to 80 people were arrested for mortar fire or car fires in Strasbourg. Often minors, it's too much for the prefect of Bas-Rhin Jacques Witkowski.
In a letter, he addresses the parents of these young people directly. “I wonder about your ability to fulfill your parental obligations satisfactorily. I am counting on your commitment to ensure that these actions do not happen again in the future, in the very interest of your child, as well as that of our fellow citizens. “, he wrote in his letter.
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The prefect also summons the foreign parents of these young delinquents to a meeting in the coming days. If they do not appear, he will proceed, he warns, “to re-examine [leur] right to stay on the national territory.
French parents are invited to make an appointment with social services if they are struggling to properly educate their child. Otherwise, again, the prefecture will take sanctions. The message has the merit of being clear.
