Guard stabbed: Macron and Bayrou want to restrict the sale of knives to minors
François Bayrou has promised to ban "immediately" the sale of all knives to minors, following the murder of a supervisor who was stabbed on Tuesday morning, June 10, by a 14-year-old student at the entrance to a secondary school in Nogent, Haute-Marne.
"We're going to expand the list of weapons" that are banned from sale. "For the moment, only daggers, to put it simply, are banned. We're going to ban any knife that can be used as a weapon," and this measure will come into effect "immediately," along with age controls on the recipient of the package, the Prime Minister said on TF1.
Moments later, Emmanuel Macron announced on France 2 that "a fifteen-year-old will no longer be able to buy a knife on the Internet." "We're going to toughen the rules. That means we're going to impose massive financial sanctions and bans. We'll no longer be able to sell these bladed weapons," the head of state continued during an interview on Channel 2.
Following the Nogent tragedy , the President of the Republic also called for "a form of collective discipline" , by being "alongside" the "victims" , but by tackling "the root causes" in order to have "a society that moves forward" . "I do not want to give in to the manipulations that have taken place in recent hours" , he stressed on France 2.
"We cannot have a public debate, and in particular a political debate, which becomes a kind of following of current events," he said, assuring that he was "mobilized to provide an in-depth response."
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