Amid national riots over a police shooting, the French president blames the unrest on videogames
pcgamer.comFrance is currently engulfed in large-scale public protests and riots sparked by police shooting and killing a teenage boy in a Parisian suburb on Tuesday. The 17 year-old has been named as Nahel M. and was shot while attempting to drive away from a traffic stop. The officer who did it has since been charged with voluntary homicide, but the incident and the victim's Algerian heritage have led to much anger focused on the French police and racial profiling. Thousands of arrests have been made in the days since, with speculation mounting that president Emmanuel Macron would today declare a state of emergency.
Macron did not do that but, in a statement condemning the recent violence and calling the situation «unacceptable and unjustifiable», went on to point the finger at videogames (among other things). The French president blamed parents for not keeping their children away from the riots, said social networks had played a part by inflaming tensions and being used to organise protestors, and the coup de grace was a denunciation of videogames.
The original French is in the below clip, but what Macron's saying of the rioters is that «there is a feeling some are living on the streets, like in the video games that have intoxicated them».
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