https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHpqbo7p38Y (this video also has been cut, but this is what he said)

I'm not gonna translate the whole thing. TL;DW: he says that social networks are used by rioters to hype eachother up in order to escalate the violence, like a competition. And he concludes his point by what the article translated correctly "it sometimes feels like some of them are re-living in the streets the video games that have intoxicated them."

But he never blamed video games. He is just repeating what other ministers have said, which is that (according to them) there is "a gamification of riots", were kids are trying to out-compete each other over snapchat, with videos of violence, between housing projects.

He is not blaming video games, he is condemning the escalation and the gamification of riots.

Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of macron, but I don't want lemmy to become the next mob-justice/outrage platform. I'm just trying to provide context and nuance, which I would love to be spread across Lemmy.

This clickbait article is my source. Macron's translated quote from the article was

It sometimes feels like some of them are re-living in the streets the video games that have intoxicated them.

This does not mean that Macron blames video games for the riots. That's a straw man argument to create a clickbait article. Why is this post getting up votes? This feels like the kind of posts I'd find on Facebook not a serious world news channel