Young people who “did not have the necessary education”sic, and who show hostile behaviour towards society, were described in 1995 as “savages” by Jean-Pierre Chevènement then Minister of the Interior. Find here these remarks, as well as subsequent statements on the same theme
During his wishes to the press, the Minister of the Interior Jean-Pierre CHEVENEMENT, reacted to the police evacuation of sites occupied by the unemployed: "The police has better to do than to shoot by the feet the followers of the sit-in... We ask for it in hot neighborhoods, where young wildlings burn their neighbors' cars. We need police everywhere. For example, on the ski slopes where they provide security...".
Suite à un incendie dans une école, Jean-Pierre Chevènement explique sa décision de mise en place d'un couvre feu à Belfort. Pour Jean-Pierre Chevènement les responsables de ces actes sont "les sauvageons, des arbres non greffés, des enfants qui n'ont pas eu les éléments d'éducation nécessaires".
In a meeting, Noël Mamère, candidate in the presidential elections for the Greens, directly attacks the policy of Jean-Pierre Chevènement: "it makes me sick" by talking about the plan to withdraw family allowances to parents of failing children; "We will not hit the wildlings".
Ten days after the rioters attacked a school in Sevran, parents of students, students and teachers met in front of the prefecture of Bobigny to affirm that they are neither thugs nor savages, and avoid making the amalgam between the rioters and the students.