Racist, xenophobic and anti-religious acts rising in 2021

These crimes and offenses reported to the police rose by 13% in 2021, according to the figures published by the Ministry of the Interior, who chose 2019 as the reference year, the data of the year 2020 having been distorted by the sanitary crisis.

Le Monde with AFP

Racist crimes and offenses, xenophobia and anti-religious reported to the police increased by 13% in 2021, compared to 2019, according to The published figures, Friday, March 11 , by the Ministry of the Interior. The Ministry’s Statistics Service has chosen 2019 as a reference year, the data of the year 2020 has been distorted by the health crisis and the confinement periods.

In total in 2021, the police and the gendarmerie recorded 6,300 crimes or offenses (+ 13%) and 6,200 contraventions (+ 26% compared to 2019) of a racist nature, designating acts committed “due to Ethnicity, the nation, an alleged race or religion “. The study does not give details of the facts under antidrian acts, antimusulmans or anti-Semites.

Five percent of the victims complaint

Four times out of five, they are insults, provocations or public defamations. These data represent “only a small portion of the racist facts suffered” by the victims, which indicate little of these attacks to the police, points out Beavau.

According to the 2019 “Life and Safety Framework” survey , 1.2 million people reported having been racist victims in 2018. Between 2013 and 2018, only a quarter of the Victims of threats or racist physical violence and 5% of the victims of racist insults have, on average, declared filed complaint, according to this study.

The victims of racist crimes (5,720) are mainly men aged 25 to 54, with an overreprepreation of foreigners from a country in Africa. Authors (2,125) have “features much closer to the general population”, with fewer foreigners, more women and seniors (55 and over) compared to the average other offenses, underlines the Ministry of the Interior.

In proportion to the population, the victims are more likely to file a complaint in the North and East of France than in the West, the Massif Central and Overseas (excluding Guadeloupe and Mayotte).

/Media reports.