Four days before the first round of the legislative elections, the Head of State chained to Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) a third visit on social themes, after the hospital in Cherbourg and the school in Marseille. last week.
Emmanuel Macron insisted on Wednesday on the importance of sport for young people, especially in working-class neighborhoods, by announcing the extension of the Pass’port system, an allowance of 50 euros for the acquisition of a sports license and the sustainability of the “learning vacation” scheme.
“From the start of the next school year, we will have half an hour of sports in all primary classes” every day, said Emmanuel Macron, confirming a promise made during the presidential campaign. Sport, he insisted, “is very important to have medals” at the Olympic Games, but “it is also essential” for young people, to be “in good health”, in particular because it “allows you to fight against overweight and many diseases”.
Support for sports clubs
Accompanied by the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the President of the French Judo Federation Stéphane Nomis and the Mayor Olivier Klein (DVG), he inaugurated a “solidarity dojo”, which is also a breakdance room, in a center shopping mall in the center of Clichy-sous-Bois, a popular town about twenty kilometers from Paris. “I am 1000% for these initiatives” because “it’s a great chance that we give young people to practice a sport”, greeted the Olympic champion Teddy Riner, present at the ceremony.
The solidarity dojos allow young people from the neighborhoods to practice judo and the associated sports disciplines (taïso, ju-jitsu, kendo, etc.) for free, as in a club, explains the French Judo Federation on its website. The Clichy-sous-Bois dojo is part of the “5,000 land plan”, announced in October 2021, which provides for the development of 5,000 local sports facilities, on the horizon of the 2024 Olympic Games, for 200 million euros.
A thousand dojos and martial arts or boxing halls, 1,000 multi-sports facilities, 500 basketball courts and even 200 mobile pools for teaching toddlers to swim will thus spring up in neighborhoods and rural areas. The Head of State also announced that the Pass’Sport, a measure announced in May 2021 to support the resumption of licenses in sports clubs after the health crisis, would be extended to 760,000 scholarship students in order to encourage the sports practice, lower among students.
“Chase incivility”
Pass’Sport is currently reserved for young people aged six to 18, subject to social criteria. Emmanuel Macron also announced the renewal of the “summer quarters” and “learning holidays” systems set up for young people who do not go on vacation. “It worked tremendously, we are going to perpetuate it,” he explained. The “summer quarters” offer sports (soccer tournaments, cycling…), culture (micro-festivals, outdoor film screenings…) and training (first aid, road safety…).
The “learning holidays” offer academic reinforcement as well as leisure and nature discovery activities. Questioned by RMC from Clichy-sous-Bois, Mr. Macron also pleaded to “drive out the incivility of sport”, affirming that there was “no place for violence outside the stadium and in the stadium”, while a lively controversy surrounds the management of the Champions League final at the Stade de France, interspersed with incidents around the enclosure.
In this perspective, Emmanuel Macron called for “training supporters, changing mentalities” and carrying out “educational work”, with “school, sports clubs, federations”. “And so all those involved in sport must help us to no longer tolerate this”.
