The cities of Nantes and Rennes, in western France, have been the scene of acts of violence against Muslims in recent days. The High Representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Miguel Angel Moratinos, expresses his indignation at these extremely serious acts.
The door of the mosque in Nantes was the target of a fire, on Thursday night. This criminal act, which occurs a few days before the start of Ramadan, did not cause any casualties, but damage is to be deplored.
Veiled mothers will no longer be able to accompany their children on school outings in France. On Tuesday, senators imposed this measure, thus making unexpected amendments to the law on "separatism".
At the call of several organizations and civil society, a rally was organized this Sunday on the Place de la République in Paris, to "alert national and international public opinion against the "separatism" law and the Islamophobic practices it will reinforce.
The alleged perpetrator of the murder of the sacristan of the church of Alcalá La Real is not a Moroccan, as the far-right party Vox had claimed on social media. It is rather a "disturbed" Romanian.
Comedian Yassine Belattar once again faced Thaïs d’Escufon, spokesperson for Génération identitaire, an extreme-right movement whose dissolution procedure has recently been initiated. The Franco-Moroccan believes that his interlocutor fantasizes about "the idea of a civil war".
Invited to the Clique program on the French channel Canal +, the Moroccan writer and journalist Leïla Slimani called for a distinction to be made between Islamism and terrorism.
The annual report on Islamophobic acts in France has just been published by the National Observatory for the Fight against Islamophobia. The findings are alarming and show a 53% increase in these acts compared to 2019, with 235 anti-Muslim acts recorded compared to 154 the previous year.
About thirty NGOs are attacking France before the United Nations Human Rights Council for Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims.
The latest report on human rights in the world published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) states that there has been a flagrant violation of these rights in France. According to HRW, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, in the aftermath of the assassination of Samuel Paty in October 2020, the government has allowed itself to engage in serious excesses.
Flemish nationalist MP Theo Francken (N-VA) spoke out about the 20,000 euros the federal government is granting as subsidies to the Collective Against Islamophobia in Belgium. He says he is "shocked" by this kind of arrangement and is calling for its temporary suspension and a more thorough investigation by the State Security Service.
A Muslim technician who worked at a nuclear power plant in Nogent-sur-Seine, in the Aude, won his case against the Ministry of Ecological Transition. He will be reinstated and receive a compensation of 1500€.