Question 16037 — public order

Summary

Ms. Marine Hamelet questions the Minister of the Interior about the urban violence which accompanied, on the night of May 30 to 31, 2026, the victory of Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League final and more broadly about the persistent inability of the State to prevent the systematic transformation of each major sporting event into a scene of riots. The report drawn up by the Minister himself shows 890 arrests on the national territory, an increase of 45% compared to the previous year and 178 police officers and gendarmes injured. Looted businesses, burned vehicles and bus shelters, fireworks fired at the police, attempts to break into a police station: the scars of the ransacking were visible in many districts of the capital, but also in around fifteen towns. Now this scenario is nothing new; he is become an organized inevitability. The same scenes had occurred a year earlier, in May 2025, after the Parisian club's first European coronation; they had already occurred in July 2018, during the victory of the French team in the World Cup. At each popular jubilation, the same violent minority, often organized and mobile, confiscates public space, attacks the police and terrorizes residents and traders alike. And each time, public officials repeat the same promises: in 2025, the Prime Minister announced a “penal revolution” and the then Minister of the Interior recognized that the sanction was not commensurate with the actions. A year later, not only has nothing changed, but the toll has worsened by 45%. This inertia is all the less understandable given that public opinion is unambiguously demanding greater firmness. According to the Odoxa-Backbone survey for Le Figaro carried out after this violence, 70% of French people believe that the instructions given to the police are not repressive enough. With regard to the sanction, the Member recalls that the principle of the “breaker pays” has no need to be reinvented: it already appears in the law. Article L. 211-10 of the Internal Security Code makes the State civilly liable for damages. caused by the crowds and opens recourse action against the perpetrators of the damage, under the conditions of common law of civil liability. Parents also remain jointly and severally liable, as of right, for damage caused by their minor children in application of article 1242 of the civil code. The problem is therefore not the lack of legal basis, but its virtual inapplication. She also wishes know: how many recourse actions have actually been initiated by the State on the basis of article L. 211-10 of the internal security code since 2019; what instructions will be given to prefects to systematize these actions; what measures the Government intends to take so that repairing damage ceases to be the responsibility of the community and is effectively borne by the perpetrators and, for minors, by those civilly responsible; finally, she also wishes to know if the Government intends to draw the consequences of these repeated episodes as major events approach, first and foremost the Football World Cup.

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