#News - Crif welcomes the decline of racist and antisemitic acts in 2016 in France and calls for vigilance against the new faces of hatred

The Government's action, in particular "Operation Sentinel" (homeland military operation) and the activities carried out by the Dilcra, contributed undoubtedly to this decline.

Crif regrets the rise of anti-Christian acts and expresses its entire solidarity with the Christian communities.

Crif recalls, however, that the level of antisemitic acts and threats of the year 2016 remains very high (335), more than three times the average of the 1990s.

On the other hand, the Crif notes an increase in racist and anti-Semitic remarks on the Internet. Crif stresses that racist and antisemitic publications on the Internet are not subject to complaints and are not measuredby these figures.

Finally, the aggravation in anti-Semitic acts in recent years, in particular the attacks in which died 5 adults and 3 children at the Ozar Hatora School in Toulouse and the Hyper Cacher at the Porte de Vincennes, certainly raised the threshold of tolerance from which French Jews declared aggression.

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