Roubaix: An Association Acquitted on Appeal After Accusations of ‘Muslim Proselytism’
The association ‘Ambitions et initiatives pour la réussite’ (AAIR) was acquitted on appeal on January 13 after being accused of misappropriating public funds.
Trial of the Barjols: RN Members Linked to Attack Plans Against Muslims and Migrants
After a postponement in early January 2025, the appeal trial of members of the far-right group ‘Les Barjols’ opened on January 13.
Attack on a high school: perpetrators of fake “Islamist” tags given 6-month suspended prison sentence
In Quimper (eastern France) last April, a private Catholic school was vandalized by two men, including writing on the walls of classrooms aimed at harming Muslims by blaming them for the damage. Some of the inscriptions were: “Long live Islam”; “Allah is great”; “Death to France”; “France to Morocco”. In police custody the following day, […]
They planned murders of migrants and attacks on mosques, their trial postponed until January
The appeal trial of the eleven far-right activists, due to take place last week, will now be held in January. A request for postponement was lodged by the lawyer of one of the defendants: the trial date fell at the same time as her delivery. In January 2023, thirteen defendants were brought to trial: three […]
Muslim women stabbed in Paris: the two accused are sent back to the Assize Court
In October 2020 on the Champ de Mars in Paris, two Muslim women were physically attacked and stabbed several times by two women who also insulted them: “Dirty Arabs”, “You’re not at home here”. The victims were hospitalized and the two suspects placed in police custody for “racially motivated intentional violence”, a charge that was […]
Far-right terrorism: ex-gendarme sentenced on appeal to 18 years in prison
Alexandre Gilet, a former volunteer policeman from Grenoble (south-east France), was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment by the Paris Court of Assizes on Friday for criminal terrorist conspiracy. He had taken part in a neo-Nazi group planning attacks on the Jewish and Muslim communities in 2018. Three other men were convicted alongside him at trial, […]
Two Koran desecrators sent on trial for inciting hatred
Two Swedish prosecutors have remanded for trial two men who repeatedly desecrated the Koran in the summer of 2023, including burning it and hurling insults at Muslims. Although the Swedish government has in the past condemned Quran burning on its soil, while stressing the predominance of freedom of expression and assembly, Attorney General Anna Hankkio […]
