Paris, December 6, 2007 (LPAC)--Today, the Paris regional newspaper, le Parisien, had its front page entitled "They're addicted to video games." On the two pages of Le fait du jour (the fact of the day) they develop the tragic danger of addiction to cyberspace.

The mother of a 24-year-old student, Jordan Poncin, who committed suicide on March 24. 2007 near Grenoble, explains: "He was spending his time playing in his bedroom. In these games, he was the king, the master, the head of the clan. He had reached a very high level and the other youths he was playing with respected him. There, he felt recognized. He had disconnected himself from the reality of life, of his friends and of his family. He was in a virtual world, completely fake. There, he was the strongest, but he was alone."

Then, Dr Jean-Claude Matysiak, specialist in addictology in the Villeneuve-Saint-Georges Hospital in interviewed. He explains that “international studies estimate that 2% of players are caused very serious problems for their health, by video games on Internet." For him, the people facing those problems are “young-adults between 18 and 30, playing during tens of hours very addictive games like World of Warcraft, Age of Mythology, or CounterStrike." On suicide, he says, "Yes, it can be caused by that, but it's rare. A depression can be amplified by isolation in the game, which cuts the person from his social universe or from his loving relations."

In France, Le Parisian notes there are 13 million gamers; 3.8 million of them play everyday and 10,000 people are considered as addicted, for an industry of 1.8 billion Euros, with a 12% annual growth.

The LaRouche Youth Movement and Solidarite et Progres, which have been circulating mass leaflets attacking this British operation, will soon have out a French version of the hard-hitting pamphlet, "Is the Devil in Your Laptop?" already out in the hundreds of thousands in the United States.