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On Wednesday, Sacha Houlié, the president of the National Assembly's Law Commission, criticized "cosmetic measures" and "opportunistic" of the right that proposes to reduce the family allowances of parents of children who participate in riots.

The president of the Law Commission of the National Assembly, Sacha Houlié of Renaissance, criticized Wednesday "cosmetic measures" and "opportunistic" of the right which proposes to review downwards the family allowances of parents of children who would participate in riots. "At each phenomenon of society, we have the right to the same electoral marmalade from those who have full the drawers of their old projects," ironically the deputy in front of the parliamentary press (AJP), the day after a proposal of the boss of LR Eric Ciotti.

The latter, reacting to the violence in response to the death of Nahel, 17, killed by a police officer in Nanterre, had called on the government to put back on the job an extended version of a controversial law. It provides for the reduction or even elimination of family allowances for families on the basis of crimes committed by children in their care, particularly in the event of repeated truancy. The law, which the deputy of Alpes-Maritimes had voted in 2010, had been repealed by the left in 2013 because of "a rather poor record in terms of results," said Sacha Houlié.

"Minimum sentences"

"Apart from impoverishing a little more those who are targeted, it does not work more to restore parental authority," said the deputy of Vienne, also attacking those who advocate "minimum sentences". "These are cosmetic measures, very opportunistic, which should remain where they are today, in the drawers of their authors," continued the deputy of the presidential camp, who began his political career with the socialists before being one of the founders of En Marche.

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On the other hand, he called for a more systematic application of "tools at our disposal", citing in particular the article of the penal code which provides that a parent who evades "his legal obligations to the point of compromising the health, safety, morality or education of his minor child is punished by two years of imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros". The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti had himself detailed in a circular his desire for a firm judicial response to violence, including against parents of children involved. "It would be necessary that at the first offense, we manage to punish financially and easily the families," said Emmanuel Macron.