The death of a Moroccan during a police arrest has sparked a political confrontation in Spain. While the leader of Podemos describes the intervention as a racist "murder", the police unions are countersuing, defending the thesis of legitimate defense against an aggressive individual.
Btissam simply thought of returning to Moroccan gastronomic authenticity by removing alcohol from her menu in Gosselies. However, this business decision triggered an avalanche of xenophobic insults, turning the management of her family establishment into an unexpected fight against intolerance.
A new report from the Defender of Rights reveals the extent of religious discrimination in France. While stigmatization is increasing, people of Muslim faith now have 19 times more risk of being victims than the rest of the population, even after neutralizing socio-economic factors.
Qualified Muslims are leaving France , but money is not their only motivation. Faced with a "racial ceiling" in the country, these graduates are seeking "existential relief" elsewhere. Sociologist Jaafar Alloul decodes this "status migration", where expatriation becomes the only way to match skills and social recognition.
Éric Zemmour had hoped to have his convictions overturned, but the highest French court has validated the criminal penalties imposed on him. The Court of Cassation on Tuesday, December 2 rejected the appeals of the president of Reconquête!, making two separate sentences for incitement to hatred and defamation final.
A Moroccan-born man living in Béziers was sentenced to a prison term for verbally assaulting a Jewish family and a rabbi. The criminal court sanctioned these anti-Semitic insults with a one-year prison sentence, of which eight months are to be served behind bars.
The publication of a recent Ifop poll on the relationship of young Muslims to their religion is the subject of a legal challenge. Four representative bodies of the faith have decided to take legal action against the study, arguing that it lacks neutrality and fuels stigmatization.
Spanish journalist David Sánchez finds a solution for Lamine Yamal, the number 1 target of racism in Spain : leave the Roja for Morocco, his country of origin, where he is not at risk of facing racist insults.
Football has become the main sounding board for racism and xenophobia in sport. This is the alarming conclusion of the first report of the Spanish Observatory of Racism and Xenophobia , which analyzes the spread of hate speech on social networks.
The Moroccan footballer of Dutch origin Ahmed El Azzouti, striker for the amateur club SV Spakenburg, and his family, were the targets of a group of Kozakken Boys supporters. They were victims of a violent assault and were subjected to racist insults.
Ibrahim (pseudonym), a Dutch player of Moroccan origin playing for Alexandria ’66, a 15-16 year old youth football club in Rotterdam, regularly suffers racist insults during matches.
The administrative court has once again ruled in favor of a police officer who had denounced acts of racism and mistreatment within the Paris courthouse holding cells. In a decision handed down on Wednesday, the state was found guilty of imposing illegitimate sanctions against this civil servant, recognized as a whistleblower.