A couple of examples of precociousness in the news recently. On Wednesday, police in Lyon stopped a driver who turned out to be an 11 year old boy, who'd decided he didn't like it at home so would go and visit his older brother in the middle of Lyon. He thus embarked on a 50km trip which included a stretch along the Paris-Lyon autoroute! Apparently he told police he'd learned to drive using video games, and as mitigation offered the information that he'd used his indicators to overtake a lorry and at no point had he passed 100km/h…
Another story dominating the headlines has been the affair of the footballers and the prostitute. Following a police raid on a bar/café in Paris suspected of running an underage prostitution ring, one of the young ladies in question (now 18 and thus legally allowed to charge for sex) implicated some well known French international footballers, at least two of whom she alleged to have paid her for sex when she was underage. Though she apparently also admitted she'd lied to them about her age, which means they are only being questioned as witnesses in the affair. The story is being painted as somewhat symptomatic of the life of a well-known young footballer in France today, surrounded by hangers-on only too keen to offer favours of any sort in the hope of receiving more in return...
