Social networks: Macron promises to “ban” them for those under 15

"We cannot wait." Emmanuel Macron stated on Tuesday, June 10, that France will ban social media for children under the age of fifteen if, within "a few months," this is not done at the European level.

"We must ban social networks for children under 15," said the head of state on France 2 after a supervisor was fatally stabbed in the morning by a 14-year-old student at the entrance to a secondary school in Nogent, Haute-Marne.

"I give us a few months to achieve European mobilization. Otherwise (...) we will start doing it in France," he declared.

Interviewed on TF1 following the Nogent tragedy, François Bayrou assured that the government would "immediately" ban the sale to minors of "any knife that could constitute a weapon." The Prime Minister He also called on parents and educators to be better able to detect "the signs that a teenager is not well" , while acknowledging that there is a "cruel lack" of nurses and psychologists.

• Emmanuel Macron
• French government
• Social networks