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White supremacists gather in Shelbyville on October 28, 2017. REUTERS / Stephanie Keith
In the United States, the trial of a neo-Nazi who drove into a crowd of anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville in August 2017 opened on Monday. James Fields had killed a 32-year-old woman and injured 19 others. The man denied being guilty of murder on the first day of his trial. He had several accounts on social networks in which he expressed support for white supremacism and the policies of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, and advocated violence against blacks and Jews. His action highlighted the rise of violence perpetrated by the far right in the United States.
With our correspondent in Washington, Anne Corpet
The violence by the far right in the United States began to increase after the election of Barack Obama, but they have recorded a resurgence since the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House.
A third of the terrorist attacks on US soil since 2010 are attributable to neo-Nazi groups or close to the white supremacist movement.
The violence is aimed mainly at Jews and people of color, but it also affects homosexuals and women, in short, they target minorities as a whole.
According to a report by the center on extremism and defamation, anti-Semitic attacks have for example increased by 57% in 2017 in the United States: the shooting that left eleven dead in the Pittsburgh synagogue at the end of October, is the bloodiest illustration.
According to the FBI, crimes related to racial hatred as a whole increased by 17% over the past year. Experts attribute this escalation of violence to what they call "white anxiety" fueled by Donald Trump's hate speech, which describes immigrants and Muslims as potential criminals and presents the United States as a besieged nation.
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