Extreme-Right politics in France
Recent stories
Chirac attacker jailed
Maxime Brunerie, 27, a neo-Nazi sympathiser who took a shot at President Chirac during France's Bastille Day parade two years ago, has been sentenced to ten years in prison.
13 December 2004 (62 words)
Reports from Corsica
* Antiterrorist judge Thiel placed six youths aged 19-21 under suspicion of 'criminal association, bomb attacks and breach of weapons legislation'.
11 December 2004 (354 words)
PS demands that the government acts
The story began at the beginning of June when the Socialist Party (PS) demanded that interior minister de Villepin should assume his responsibilities and arrest those behind an anti-Semitic attack on a rabbi's son in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) and racist graffiti scrawled on the house of a Strasbourg imam.
1 December 2004 (58 words)
Lyons: anti-fascist injured
After a confrontation between the far-right Bloc Identitaire and 150 anti-fascists at the Place des Jacobins in Lyons, an antifascist ended up in hospital after being attacked.
17 November 2004 (52 words)
Grenade left near Paris synagogue
The Paris crime squad was hunting for the man who left a grenade near the Rosny-sous-Bois synagogue on 5 November.
13 November 2004 (41 words)
Alsace: Chirac orders crackdown after Jewish cemetery attacked
An attack at the Brumath cemetery, ten miles north of Strasbourg in Alsace, where racist slogans were daubed and over one hundred gravestones defaced on 31 October, brought condemnation from President Chirac.
8 November 2004 (60 words)
Islamophobic attacks documented
The Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) has released a report drawn up by its fifteen members, covering the period October 2003-August 2004, which documents 182 acts.
24 October 2004 (150 words)
Official report on racism and anti-Semitism
A government-commissioned report published on 19 October which described racism and anti-Semitism as a threat to French democracy, departs somewhat from the trends suggested above.
21 October 2004 (183 words)
Le Pen deputy casts doubt on Holocaust
Le Pen's deputy and heir apparent, Bruno Gollnisch, has caused controversy by calling into question details about the Holocaust, including the number of the dead and the uses to which the gas chambers could have been put.
16 October 2004 (159 words)
Alsace in context
It is in the region of Alsace, where so many of the above attacks took place, that it becomes most clear that there is a generalised increase in racial violence which is affecting all minority ethnic communities - not just Jews or Muslims.
5 October 2004 (595 words)
Muslim women win first Senate seats
Two French Muslim women of Arab descent have won seats in the Senate in the September elections in the upper house of parliament.
30 September 2004 (100 words)
Le Pen attacks 'pro-Turkish lobby'
According to Le Pen there is a powerful Masonic elite cultivating a lobby campaigning for Turkey's entry into the EU.
23 September 2004 (56 words)
Corsica: extreme-right violent group emerges to attack North Africans
A group called The Clandestine Corsicans, which specialises in attacking North Africans and their property on Corsica, has claimed responsibility for at least seven attacks since March 22.
15 September 2004 (438 words)
Reported anti-Muslim/anti-Arab attacks between May and September
Escaudain (Nord)
9 September 2004 (394 words)
Anti-Semitic attacks reported between June and September
Paris
3 September 2004 (194 words)
Jewish man arrested in anti-Semitic incident
Much to the consternation of Jewish leaders who are concerned at the rise of anti-Semitic incidents, a French Jew, Raphael B.
3 September 2004 (104 words)
Involvement of far-right in racial violence
Extreme-right Zionist sentenced for racist attack
2 September 2004 (149 words)
Travellers disappointed by delay on sites
While the secretary of state for housing has explained away the fact that various municipalities have not yet applied the 2003 Bresson law to create authorised sites for Gypsies on the basis that the law was more complicated than expected and more time is needed, the associations of Gypsies say that more time is not needed but more political will.
30 August 2004 (121 words)
Orange FN mayor bars Libération and La Provence
Journalists from Libération and La Provence have been refused authorisation to cover the FN party conference to be held in Orange by the town's mayor.
27 August 2004 (56 words)
El Al charter takes 200 to Israel
On 28 July, a specially-chartered El Al jet left Paris taking 200 French Jews to a new life in Israel.
29 July 2004 (63 words)
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