In 2021, the police and gendarmerie services recorded 3,790 damaged “due to sexual orientation or gender identity”, an increase of 27.6 % compared to 2020.
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Is this the mirror of an increase in violence against sexual minorities or the consequence of a liberation from the speech of the victims, more inclined to push the doors of police stations and brigades? This year again, the number of anti-LGBT acts, made public Monday, May 16 by the ministerial statistical service of internal security, is experiencing strong progression. In 2021, 3,790 attacks committed “due to sexual orientation or gender identity” were thus recorded by the police and gendarmerie services, against 2,970 in 2020, an increase of 27.6 % .
Among them, there are 2,170 crimes and crimes (+ 28 %) and 1,620 tickets (+ 16 %). Defamations and insults arrive in first place, followed by physical attacks. Public space in the broad sense is the first place of expression of LGBTPHOBIES, according to this official data. However, a consequence of recent confinements that assigned people at home, more facts took place in the dwellings (24 %, against 20 % before the health crisis). Men are the main targets of crimes and crimes, with an over -representation of young people among the victims.
acceptance on the one hand, rejection on the other
The number of anti-LGBT acts has doubled since 2016, the first year of the separate publication of the figures relating to complaints received for crimes, crimes and offenses aggravated by a discriminatory mobile due to sexual orientation and the gender identity. An average increase of around 15 % per year is registered, the services of the Interior Ministry note. “I cannot believe that there is no real increase in the number of facts, reacts Sophie Elizéon, inter-ministerial delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred. As shown by the Opinion surveys, certainly we are in better acceptance by society, but at the same time LGBTPHOBES people are becoming more and more virulent, vindictive. They take action. “
A double movement confirmed by all observers. For Flora Bolter, the co -president of the LGBT+ observatory of the Jean Jaurès Foundation, “we went from denial to rejection”. The mobilizations in favor of equal rights, which resulted in recent legislative conquests (law authorizing marriage to same -sex couples, PMA for all women), “opened the door to more representations of LGBT people And, consequently, more expressions of rejection, “she points out.
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