The North Africa Journal: Immigration in France: “No Inner City is Above the Law,” Sarkozy 

Immigration in France: “No Inner City is Above the Law,” Sarkozy
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Sounia Johnson on 19 April, 2010 05:48:00
 
Sarkozy stated that anyone who disrupts order in a public academic setting will
not go unpunished declaring that destructive behavior will not be tolerated and
will be met with stiff new laws that would send anyone under 16 to juvenile
detention centers.
Sarkozy further announced the impending implementation of new legislative
measures meant to curtail school’s absenteeism by restricting, possibly
revoking social and welfare aid to families of delinquent further cautioning
parents that if they refuse to send their children to school, that the justice
will get involved stating that “No inner city is above the law” reinforcing
his commitment against a rising wave of violence attributed to poverty, drug,
and an ongoing influx of social ills.
Sarkozy’s unveiling of new innovative measure to counter-act social ills and
violence in pre-dominantly Pan-African suburbs with a high French-Maghrebi
concentration follows more recent and highly controversial measures in which the
French President declared his intent to follow Belgium’s enactment of stiff
laws making it illegal for Muslim women to be fully covered in any public
places. SOS Racisme, a French Non-profit organization based in Paris, France
released a public statement of outrage declaring its opposition to the new
proposal, describing anti-Burqa laws as counter-productive in the struggle of
supporting, promoting and defending women’s rights and that the deployment of
parliamentary laws could be better used.