Manuel Valls presented on Friday a plan to fight against racism and anti-Semitism, highly anticipated amid upsurge in anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic acts. This plan will feature “100 million euros over three years,” according to the official document released to the press. It includes 40 measures structured around justice, internet and education, by racism and anti-Semitism an “aggravating circumstance” for all crimes and offenses, integrating the suppression of hate speech law General Criminal and giving the possibility of group actions against discrimination.
“Racism, anti-Semitism, hatred of Muslims, foreigners, homophobia rise unbearably in our country “, said the head of government. He assured that “the French Jews were no longer afraid of being Jewish” and “the French Muslims should not be ashamed to be Muslim ».
To these announcements, the Prime Minister was in Creteil, scene of violent anti-Semitic attack in December, when a couple had been kidnapped from his home, the young woman raped and robbed their apartment. It is for the occasion accompanied by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (Education), Christiane Taubira (Justice), Bernard Cazeneuve (Indoor), Fleur Pellerin (Culture), Myriam El Khomri (City) and the Interministerial Delegate for the Fight against Racism and anti-Semitism, Gilles Clavreul
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The associations in the front line on the ground , expect a lot from this plan promised by the executive after the attacks in January in Paris. “The state should have a real sense of support of associations, whereas in recent years the sector has been dramatically weakened by terms of grants and symbolic recognition “, said Dominique Sopo, president of SOS Racism.
The government’s plan comes amid an explosion of hate crimes racist. In the first quarter, 226 anti-Muslim acts were identified, six times more than the same period last year, according to the Observatory against Islamophobia. But a sense of insecurity also settles among French Jews, while the number of anti-Semitic incidents doubled last year compared to 2013, largely as a result of a “new anti-Semitism” in the popular districts with violence progressing more than the insults.
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