French President Emmanuel Macron is extending an olive branch to video gamers after previously linking computer games to rioting that rocked France earlier this year
He then sought to clarify his thinking and showered video games and the industry with praise.“I expressed my concerns at the end of June because delinquents had used video game habits to trivialize the violence on social networks,” he said.
“It is this violence that I condemn, not video games.”in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on June 27. The French-born 17-year-old of north African descent was stopped by two officers on motorbikes who subsequently alleged that he’d been driving dangerously. He died from a single shot through his left arm and chest.
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