US Edition"Racism in France Has Always Been a Question of Anti-Migrant and Anti-Muslim Bias"
- Christophe B., a French man in his fifties, fatally shot his Tunisian neighbor Hichem Miraoui in Auget-sur-Argens on Saturday evening.
- The case followed a rise in anti-Muslim acts in France and led PNAT, created in 2019, to treat this far-right racist attack as a terrorist offense for the first time.
- Christophe B. wounded another neighbor, posted racist videos before and after the attack, fled by car, and was arrested by special forces at 5 a.m. Sunday.
- Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau called the killing a "clearly a racist crime," while the suspect’s lawyer expressed regret but contested the terrorist classification.
- The case has intensified concerns about Islamophobia in France, prompting calls from religious leaders to hold accountable those who promote racial hatred and incite violence.
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In silence and in white, the inhabitants of Puget-sur-Argens, in the Var, paid a final tribute to Hichem Miraoui. Last weekend, this Tunisian quadrennial was killed by a neighbour, in a crime that the courts call racist. His relatives now demand justice. The body of the hairdresser will be repatriated Wednesday to Tunisia to be buried by his family. (Police, justice and other facts).
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lalsace.frQuadrennial Hichem Miraoui was killed on 31 May by a neighbour in a crime that was described as terrorist and racist by the courts. A first march took place in Marseilles this Sunday morning.
Two tributes are planned during the day, in the Var and Marseilles, in memory of the four-year-old Tunisian murdered at the end of May, who worked in a hair salon.
Without a filter, Memona Hintermann, a great reporter, a former member of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel. Today, the racist assassinations of Abubakar Cissé and Hichem Miraoui.
Mr. Hichem Miraoui, of Tunisian origin, was shot to death last Saturday in the south of France. This week the Gala Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office has assumed the investigation of the murder as a racist crime linked to the extreme right, the first time it has done so since its creation in 2019. The man arrested as an alleged murderer had left an unequivocal racist and Islamophobic trail on the networks. Continue reading
About 2,000 people are expected in Puget-sur-Argens to "pay tribute" to the victim, who had been killed "atrociously" on 31 May last in the Var.
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