The records on convicted cases were reported to ODIHR after the publication of data for 2018. Of the 252 convictions, 66 may include instances of hate speech and, therefore, also fall outside of the OSCE's definition of hate crime.
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-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-Muslim hate crimes presented below have been disaggregated separately by the Ministry of the Interior in collaboration with civil society organizations monitoring these hate crimes. These are included below two categories mentioned above and separately.
The Ministry of Justice issued an instruction on strengthening the pedagogical nature of sentencing for hate crime offenders. The instruction invites prosecutors to publicize their decisions in these cases, where possible, and to establish partnerships with national memory sites and other remembrance institutions.
The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior have jointly created a network of investigators and magistrates sensitized to the specificities of hate crimes, in order to improve the experience of victims or those who report incidents. This experiment has been piloted in Provence and aims to increase the reporting of hate crimes. Lessons learned will inform the training strategy for investigators at the national level.
The data provided for racism and xenophobia also relate to crimes committed based on an actual or perceived membership of 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.
Incidents in this category have also been reported under the category "Racism and Xenophobia" and may therefore be listed here twice.
Incidents in this category have also been reported under the category "Racism and Xenophobia" and may therefore be listed here twice.
Police data in this section includes sex and gender bias motivated crimes, as well as bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
ODIHR observes that France has not reported to ODIHR the numbers of prosecuted hate crime cases.