The police provide data broken down by racism and xenophobia (which also includes anti-religious hate crime) and bias on grounds of sex/gender (also including hate crimes committed with bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity).
The anti-Christian, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hate crimes presented below have been disaggregated separately by the Ministry of the Interior. Furthermore, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hate crimes have been consulted with civil society organizations that monitor such crimes.
The data provided for racism and xenophobia also relate to crimes committed based on an actual or perceived membership in a religion. Incidents listed separately as anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and anti-Christian are therefore also included in this set of data.
Incidents in this category have also been reported under the category "Racism and Xenophobia" and may therefore be listed here twice. "Physical assault" includes acts of homicides, terrorist attacks and other violent attacks. "Threats" may include acts that fall outside of the OSCE definition of hate crime.The categories of “Damage to property” and “Threats/Threatening behaviour” include also cases of desecration of graves and attacks against places of worship.
Incidents in this category have also been reported under the category "Racism and Xenophobia" and may therefore be listed here twice. "Physical assault" includes acts of homicides, terrorist attacks and other violent attacks. "Threats" may include acts that fall outside of the OSCE definition of hate crime. The categories of “Damage to property” and “Threats/Threatening behaviour” include also cases of desecration of graves and attacks against places of worship.
Incidents in this category have also been reported under the category "Racism and Xenophobia" and may therefore be listed here twice. "Physical assault" includes acts of homicides, terrorist attacks and other violent attacks. "Threats" may include acts that fall outside of the OSCE definition of hate crime. The categories of “Damage to property” and “Threats/Threatening behaviour” include also cases of desecration of graves and attacks against places of worship.
The attacks against places of worship include nine attacks against places affiliated with Jehovah's Witnesses and two attacks affiliated with Buddhists.
Police data in this section includes crimes motivated by bias based on sex and gender, as well as bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Data on acts of homicides or attempted homicides could not be provided for reasons of confidentiality. "Incitement to violence" may include acts that fall outside of the OSCE definition of hate crime.
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published relevant recommendations in its 2019 Roma and Travellers Survey findings, "Roma and Travellers in six countries."
ODIHR observes that France has not reported to ODIHR the numbers of prosecuted hate crime cases.
Kantor Center reported only statistical data. This explains the discrepancy between the graphic above and the incidents included below.