France May Put a Ban On Social Media For People Under The Age Of 15

According to President Emmanuel Macron, France wants to issue a nationwide ban on using social media by people aged less than 15 years. The background is a knife attack at a French school.

Prohibition in response to knife attacks

Like the French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday Euronews Announced, his country plans the introduction of a broadly created ban on social media use for children and adolescents aged 15 years within “a few months”. One will take this step, should there be a Europe-wide solution that also limits access to services from the social media sector for young people. You could no longer wait with such a step, Macron explained in an interview with the TV station France 2. “I give us a few months to start mobilization in Europe.

Otherwise we will start in France,” said the president with a view to the social media ban he asked for. Previously, a 14-year-old student had fatally injured a educational assistant at a school near the southern French city of Dijon with a knife. At the entrance to the school complex in the city of Nogent, the woman had checked the pockets of incoming students because the authorities in France have been trying to stop a presumably increasing number of acts of violence at the schools in the country.

The attack was loud Euronews Right in front of the entrance to the school, where the 31-year-old victim should check the pockets of the students together with the police officers specially parked for this purpose. In April there was a similar case in the west of France, in which a young person attacked four classmates with a knife, which killed one of those affected.