Self defense. “We cannot approve of this kind of new wild west.”

Eric Delbecq is the author Constant insecurity Editions du Cerf.

LE FIGARO. – Why are individuals increasingly tempted to take the law into their own hands?

Eric Delbeck: – First, because the criminal justice system is inefficient and it takes far too long to provide a sufficient judicial response to all the indecencies and assaults that many of our fellow citizens are subjected to every day. Then because self-control, self-control, “civilization of manners” as Norbert Elias would say, he is going through a regression. This is evident in the rise to power of violent radical minorities, but also in the behavior of many people whose “superego” sways, if I may say so, in favor of intense impulses.

Is this spontaneous anger exacerbated by the activities of French justice?

It has to be said again and again that pointing the finger at the magistracy is pointless. It’s a surgery…