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Macron calls on parents to keep child rioters off the streets

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French President Emmanuel Macron called on parents to keep child rioters off the streets on Friday, adding that around a third of the 875 people arrested overnight for rioting were "young, or very young". "It's the responsibility of parents to keep them at home," he told reporters after chairing a crisis security meeting. "It's not the state's job to act in their place," he added.

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