France | HCRW

France regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Since 2012, DILCRAH has served as an inter-ministerial body and platform for co-operation to address hate crime, including through research and financial support to civil society organizations (CSOs). DILCRAH, along with a number of CSOs, is also involved in the training of judges and prosecutors, as well as police officers and gendarmes. The Central Office for Combating Crimes against Humanity and Hate Crimes (OCLCH) is an inter-agency body composed of police officers and gendarmes that is responsible for leading and coordinating the fight against crimes against humanity and hate crimes, assisting and supporting local units in this area, acting as the national contact point for both units and external entities, investigating, providing expertise and preparing threat assessments in its area of responsibility.

Hate crime data are regularly published by the National Institution for Human Rights. France conducts regular surveys on hate crime victimization to measure unreported hate crimes.

SELECT YEAR

Download the 2014 hate crime report for France

OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2023	6,211	1,557	1,736
2022	3,807	469	355
2021	3,443	486	425
2020	2672	-	-
2019	2640	-	-
2018	1838	-	252
2017	1505	Not available	255
2016	1835	Not available	583
2015	1790	Not available	Not available
2014	1662	Not available	554
2013	1765	579	Not available
2012	2357	604	550
2011	Not available	Not available	431
2010	2	Not available	562
2009	Not available	Not available	579

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National developments

A new "Action Plan Against Racism and Anti-Semitism" was presented by the Prime Minister and will be implemented between 2015 and 2017 by the Interministerial Delegation for Combatting Racism and Anti-Semitism (DILCRA). Among other measures, the Action Plan includes: conducting hate crime victimisation surveys to reveal the scale of unreported hate crime; increasing the visibility of criminal justice system action against hate crimes by publishing the lists of sentences disaggregated by type of recorded bias; making bias an aggravating factor for all types of offences; and providing specialized assistance to victims of hate crimes.

The Public Defender of Rights has launched a website which includes information for the victims of racism, discrimination and hate crimes at: www.egalitecontreracisme.fr.

KEY OBSERVATION

ODIHR observes that France has met most OSCE commitments on hate crime data collection and reporting. ODIHR further observes that data on certain OSCE-mandated bias motivations have not been reported.

INCIDENTS REPORTED BY CIVIL SOCIETY

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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime, Anti-Semitic hate crime, Anti-Muslim hate crime, Anti-LGBTI hate crime

In his country visit report, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe expressed concern at rising racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and homophobic rhetoric and acts. He stressed that the existing, solid legal framework needs to be complemented by more preventive and awareness-raising measures.