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  • French Government Vows ’Intractable’ Response to Racist Attacks on Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais
    26 October 2024, by Prince

    Elected Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais last Saturday, Sabah Aib admitted a few days later on Instagram that she had been the victim of racism on social networks. Through the voice of Othman Nasrou, Secretary of State for Citizenship and the Fight against Discrimination, the French government reacted to this matter, stating that it will be "intractable" in the face of racism.
    Of Algerian father and Moroccan mother, Sabah Aib denounced the racist comments she has been the victim of on social (…)

  • Cosmetics Executive Suspended for Islamophobic Tweets Against TV Personality
    1 March 2019, by Said

    The Marketing Director of the Nocibé cosmetics chain was suspended yesterday following his Islamophobic tweets posted in response to Yassine Belattar’s decision to resign from the LCI news channel for his open support for Éric Zemmour.
    Alain Bizeul, that’s his name, had strongly reacted on February 19 on his personal Twitter account by commenting on the decision of the Franco-Moroccan. "Good riddance you Islamist scum. You make my day," he had written on Twitter in reaction to this (…)

  • French Anti-Racism Group Tests Beach Discrimination on Côte d’Azur
    4 August 2019, by Bladi.net

    Through an unprecedented experiment, implemented on eight private beaches, the "Sos racisme" Association is trying to detect and then track racial discrimination on private beaches on the Côte d’Azur.
    To carry out the experiment in question, "Sos racisme" uses several couples of different skin colors. A first one, of Maghrebi appearance, and a second, made up of whites only. Each of these two couples must present themselves at the entrance of a beach hut and ask to reserve a mattress, on (…)

  • Croatia Fined and Sanctioned by UEFA for Racist Behavior Ahead of World Cup
    6 November 2022, by Prince

    Croatia, who share Group F with Morocco at the 2022 World Cup, has just been sanctioned by UEFA for "racist and discriminatory behavior" by supporters during the match against Austria (3-1) in September.
    UEFA did not provide details on the incidents that occurred during this match. But it would be a question of insults from supporters directed against the federation and far-right chants.
    The body has fined the Croatian federation 20,000 euros for this discrimination and another 23,000 (…)

  • Rapper Khaled Accuses France Inter Radio of Racism During Live Broadcast
    3 May 2020, by Ginette

    The radio station France Inter experienced an uncomfortable moment on Labor Day. A program intended to collect the testimony of those who are participating in the fight against the coronavirus in one way or another, turned into a denunciation.
    A listener who sai

  • Far-Right French Politician Faces Legal Action Over Controversial Christchurch Tweet
    19 March 2019, by Said

    Her message will not go unpunished. The French far-right elected official Catherine Blein will be prosecuted in court following her message on Twitter: "Shooting in New Zealand, an eye for an eye..."
    Deleted since, this message sparked a strong controversy on social networks, prompting the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM, via the National Observatory against Islamophobia) to mandate the lawyer at the Nîmes bar Khadija Aoudia to file a complaint with the Public Prosecutor against (…)

  • Islamophobic Graffiti Targets Religious Sites in Rennes, France
    16 April 2019, by Said

    Among the inscriptions discovered: "88 Nic the Mus", a smiley with the inscription "Go Home" and a third tag with the symbols of the three monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) under which one can read: "No thank you".
    According to AFP, these tags were discovered by Muslim worshippers and officials on Monday morning and work was already underway yesterday afternoon (after the police report) to erase them.
    "The tags simultaneously targeted three places of worship in a (…)

  • Lille Law School Paper Sparks Outrage with Controversial Article on Arabs and Muslims
    20 September 2019, by Ginette

    The satirical newspaper of the students of the Faculty of Law of Lille is accused of racism. It was on Wednesday, September 18, following the publication of an article entitled "The Arabs". Criticized from all sides, the student reacts by claiming to have been misunderstood, as he wanted to denounce racist clichés.
    The Cactus newspaper, "a satirical rag appearing when it can", is distributed at the Faculty of Law in Lille.
    The incriminated article begins with unflattering and (…)

  • Telegram Shuts Down Far-Right Channels After French Government Request
    5 April 2023, by Sylvanus

    At the request of French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, the encrypted messaging app Telegram has closed discussion groups used by the far-right group "FrDeter" for racist remarks and calls for violence against the Muslim community, lawyers, elected officials, journalists, among others.
    Following the revelations of Tajmaât, a "collaborative platform for the Maghreb diaspora" which explains "to relay news concerning Maghrebis, to help when some members are in difficulty, to communicate (…)

  • Parents Decry ’Racist Justice’ After Driver Sentenced in 8-Year-Old’s Fatal Pedestrian Crossing Accident
    21 December 2022, by Sylvanus

    The reaction of Yanis’ parents, the 8-year-old child who died in February after being hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing in Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, did not wait after the verdict of the Perpignan Criminal Court, which sentenced the driver to two years in prison with probation. They denounce "a racist justice" and intend to appeal the judgment.
    It is "a racist justice, our son’s name is Yanis and not Yannick," denounced on Tuesday the parents of Yanis at the end of the trial on the death (…)