Nantes Grapples with Rising Crime by Unaccompanied Migrant Youth

The phenomenon of unaccompanied minors goes far beyond the television sets where these wandering children are the subject of acerbic and racist insults. The public authorities in Nantes are facing much more serious than insults: isolated foreign young people, mainly from the Maghreb, notably from Morocco, are engaging in thefts of necklaces, smartphones, burglaries and other crimes, reports Ouest-France.

Successive arrests, repeated convictions, have not been able to do anything. The networks are rarely dismantled. Several questions about their situation and the networks to which they belong, as well as those behind them, remain unanswered.

Hence the need for a better approach for a more in-depth knowledge of the subjects, in order to better apprehend them. The authorities have information, each at their own level, but struggle to make the best of it, in order to put an end to this phenomenon.
For a month now, the public authorities have been multiplying meetings with the police, researchers, magistrates, lawyers, social workers and Maghrebis, for a collective response, in vain.