Anti-Muslim acts in France tripled in 2015, with peaks in activity coming after two sets of deadly terror attacks, a Government
advisory commission
said on Monday.
A total of 429 anti-Muslim threats or hate crimes were reported last year, up from 133 in 2014, according to a report from France's National Human Rights Commission (CNCDH).
Two “peaks” in abuse came after jehadis attacked satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 and a subsequent assault in November that killed 130 people in Paris, said CNCDH president Christine lazerges.
Overall, complaints of hate threats or crimes saw a “consequential increase” of just over 22 per cent to 2,034 in 2015, the commission noted in its annual report on the fight against
racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia.
However, anti-Semitic hate acts fell in 2015 to 808, a five per cent drop over the previous year.