Several southern French cities are imposing night-time curfews on unaccompanied children to reduce youth violence.
The right-wing mayor of Béziers this week banned any unsupervised under-13s on the streets of three districts between 11pm and 6am. Robert Ménard said his move was a response to the “increasing number of young minors left to their own devices” and a rise in “urban violence” – although, as The Independent pointed out, the mayor provided no figures to support this.
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