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"Racism in France Has Always Been a Question of Anti-Migrant and Anti-Muslim Bias"
- On Saturday evening, Christophe B., a French man in his 50s, fatally shot his Tunisian neighbour Hichem Miraoui in Puget-sur-Argens, southern France.
- The attack followed a rise in anti-Muslim acts in France and led the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office, created in 2019, to treat the case as a terrorist offence.
- Christophe B. Posted videos pledging allegiance to France and intending to “put a stop to the Islamists” before he was arrested early Sunday by special forces after wounding another Turkish neighbour.
- Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau called the killing “clearly a racist crime”, while the suspect’s lawyer expressed regret but disputed the racist and terrorist classifications.
- The case has intensified concerns over Islamophobia in France, prompting religious leaders to urge political accountability for inciting hatred and extremism.
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Mr. Hichem Miraoui, of Tunisian origin, was shot to death last Saturday in the south of France. This week the Gala Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office has assumed the investigation of the murder as a racist crime linked to the extreme right, the first time it has done so since its creation in 2019. The man arrested as an alleged murderer had left an unequivocal racist and Islamophobic trail on the networks. Continue reading
About 2,000 people are expected in Puget-sur-Argens to "pay tribute" to the victim, who had been killed "atrociously" on 31 May last in the Var.
"Racism in France has always been a question of anti-migrant and anti-Muslim bias"
A Frenchman was remanded in custody on Thursday over the racist killing of his Tunisian neighbour, in what prosecutors say is the first time a far-right attack has been classed as terrorism. Saturday's shooting in the town of Puget-sur-Argens in southern France sparked fresh concerns about rising racism in France, which is home to the largest Muslim community in the European Union. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24's Dela…
The suspect in the terrorist attack that killed and injured one last weekend in the Var recognizes the facts, but denies any racist motivation and any terrorist intent.
The magistrates retained both the racist motivation and the terrorist intent of this crime, in particular because of the suspect's publications on Facebook. In custody, however, the suspect denied one as well as the other.
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