(Jewish Group) France's tiny Jewish minority targeted in majority of racist incidents in 2019
Most of the racist hate crimes documented in France last year were anti-Semitic incidents directed at Jews who make up less than one percent of the countrys population.
The French interior ministry published the data Sunday in a report that counted 687 anti-Semitic incidents last year out of a total of 1,142 racist hate crimes. The 2019 figure for anti-Semitic incidents constitute an increase of almost 27 percent from 541 such cases documented in 2018, AFP reported.
Of the anti-Semitic cases documented in 2019, threats accounted for 536 incidents and the remaining 151 were defined as acts instances of assault against Jews or vandalism of their property.
Attacks and threats against Muslims numbered 154, a 54-percent increase over such cases in 2018. Muslims account for about nine percent of Frances population of about 65 million. France also has about half a million Jews.
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