France’s election stokes far-right linked violence

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While the interior ministry says it does not have consolidated numbers on such incidents, they offer a snapshot of what rights groups say are a rising number of assaults motivated by race, religion, homophobia, transphobia and political allegiance during campaigning for France’s snap election. Michael Colborne, researcher for Bellingcat on transnational far-right networks, said that if the RN was to take power, young men could feel empowered to “take matters into their own hands.”

Anti-racism campaigner Saphia Ait Ouarabi said she had in the past weeks been on the receiving end of racial abuse online. France’s human rights commission, the CNCDH, in an annual report published on Thursday, June 27, said that 2023 saw a rise in racism and xenophobia, amplified by the war in Gaza and by debates echoing the RN’s idea of “preference” for French nationals.

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