Racist, xenophobic and anti-religious crimes and offenses reported to law enforcement increased by 13% in 2021 compared to 2019, according to figures released Friday by the Ministry of the Interior.

The ministry's statistics service has chosen 2019 as the reference year, the data for 2020 having been distorted by the health crisis and periods of confinement.

Often insults, provocations and public defamation

In total in 2021, the police and the gendarmerie recorded 6,300 crimes or offenses (+13%) and 6,200 tickets (+26% compared to 2019) of a racist nature, designating acts committed "due to ethnicity, nation, so-called race or religion".

The study does not give details of the facts relating to anti-Christian, anti-Muslim or anti-Semitic acts.

Four times out of five, it is insults, provocations or public defamation.

These data represent “only a small part of the racist facts suffered” by the victims who report these attacks to the police, underlines Beauvau.

Few complaints filed by victims

According to the 2019 “Living Environment and Security” survey, 1.2 million people said they had been victims of racist attacks in 2018.

Between 2013 and 2018, only a quarter of victims of racist threats or physical violence and 5% of victims of racist insults, on average, said they had filed a complaint, according to this study.

The victims of racist crimes and offenses (5,720) are mainly men aged 25 to 54, with an over-representation of foreigners from an African country.

The perpetrators (2,125) on the other hand have "characteristics much closer to the general population", with fewer foreigners, more women and older people (55 years and over) compared to the average for other crimes, underlines the Ministry of the Interior.

As a proportion of the population, more victims file a complaint in the north and east of metropolitan France than in the west, the Massif Central and overseas territories (excluding Guadeloupe and Mayotte).

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