Violence and harassment in France
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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)
Foreigners victims of police violence
According to a report from the Citoyens Justice Police (which includes LDH, MRAP and the lawyers' and magistrates' unions) the vast majority of victims of police violence would appear to be foreigners.
4 December 2004 (151 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)
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)
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)
Involvement of far-right in racial violence
Extreme-right Zionist sentenced for racist attack
2 September 2004 (149 words)
Administrative court overrules exclusion for anti-Semitic attack
The administrative appeal court ruled on 11 August that the exclusion of two pupils from school, one for physical violence and threatening behaviour, the second for complicity and anti-Semitic insults, constituted a disproportionate sanction.
14 August 2004 (121 words)
March to remember African child killed by police bullet
On 26 June a trainee policeman accidentally fired his gun and the bullet went through the wall into the adjoining apartment where it fatally wounded a 6-year-old.
8 August 2004 (111 words)
Sharon tells French Jews to emigrate
The French and Israeli governments were embroiled in a simmering row over anti-Semitism after Ariel Sharon on 18 July, in a speech to Jewish leaders in Jerusalem, urged French Jews to emigrate to Israel because France was the country of the 'wildest' anti-Semitism.
20 July 2004 (176 words)
Chirac calls for end to 'odious' racial attacks
On 8 July Chirac made a national appeal for racial and religious tolerance as part of a campaign to tackle a surge in racist attacks.
9 July 2004 (161 words)
Haute Savoie: Muslim places of worship attacked
In the early hours of 5 March two Muslim places of worship were attacked in Annecy (Haute-Savoie).
21 April 2004 (267 words)
Newspaper documents anti-Muslim incidents
According to Le Monde, a number of attacks have recently taken place.
21 April 2004 (135 words)
Nationalism and racism in Corsica
As territorial elections grew nearer, a new bout of racism emerged in Corsica.
17 March 2004 (168 words)
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