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France Bobigny Court (Tribunal de grande instance de Bobigny) 2016 France / Bobigny Court / Criminal judgment Nationality Third country nationals Ms. Zhang was followed by three people and was struck on the head; she fell to the ground and her bag was stolen from her. One of the perpetrators punched her brother-in-law in the left eye. View more
France Council of State 2020 France / Council of State/440757 Religion Muslims In a request of 20 May 2020 the Association for the Defence of Human Rights - Collective against Islamophobia in France (ADDH-CCIF) and Ms B. A. asked the judge for summary proceedings of the Council of State to immediately enjoin the Prime Minister to take all necessary measures to allow the exercise of freedom of worship in Muslim religious establishments, throughout the country and in compliance with the necessary health regulations, on the day of Eid al-fitr, on 24 or 25 May 2020, in… View more
France Court of Cassation 2018 France / Court of Cassation/ECLI:FR:CCASS:2018:CR03270 Religion Muslims Mr B., a journalist and essayist, was summoned to appear before the criminal court for having made anti-Muslim remarks to Mr Stefano A, an Italian journalist, during an interview (in French, translated into Italian) in Paris on 30 October 2014 with the Italian daily newspaper Corriere Della Serra, published in the country and broadcast on the internet. He said: "Muslims have their civil code, it's the Koran, they live among themselves in the peripheries, the French have been forced to… View more
France Court of Cassation 2018 France / Court of Cassation/ECLI:FR:CCASS:2018:CR01309 Religion, Race/Ethnicity Muslims Mr. Y. was summoned to appear before the criminal court on the charge of provocation of racial discrimination against the Muslim community. This was following statements published on a website, which he is the director of publication for, under the title, "What if Islam were the cult of sexual and moral perversion?". The judges of first instance convicted him on this count. The Court of Appeal upheld their decision. View more
France Court of Cassation 2017 France / Court of Cassation/ECLI:FR:CCASS:2017:SO02484 Religion Muslims Ms. Y. a design engineer, was dismissed for misconduct for refusing to remove her Islamic headscarf when she worked in the company's corporate clients' offices. The employee brought an action before the labour court challenging her dismissal and claiming that it constituted a discriminatory measure on the grounds of her religious beliefs. The Paris Court of Appeal said that her dismissal was based on real and serious grounds. View more
France Court of cassation (Cour de cassation) 2016 France / Court of cassation / Decision No. 15-25.873

ECLI:FR:CCASS:2016:C101245
Race/Ethnicity Muslims Pursuant to the requests of the public prosecutor, the police services carried out an identity check on Mr. X. which led to no legal or administrative proceedings. Citing failings of the public justice service resulting in the discriminatory nature of the identity check on grounds of his origin, his physical appearance or his membership of an ethnic group, Mr. X. filed legal proceedings against the State legal authority claiming compensation for non-material damages. The Paris Court of Appeal… View more
France Court of cassation (Cour de cassation) 2013 France / Court of cassation / Decision No. 12-84790

ECLI:FR:CCASS:2013:CR03515
Race/Ethnicity Migrants On 20 September 2009, Mr. Z. and Mr. A. committed a violent assault on Mr. X, leading to his incapacity to work for over eight days. The investigating judge, after having charged the perpetrators with the offence of aggravated violence, in particular because of the membership of Mr. X . of a particular race, finally ordered them to be sent before the criminal court without retaining the aggravating circumstance. Mr. X. appealed this decision. The pre-trial chamber of the Toulouse Court of… View more
France Court of Cassation (Cour de cassation) 2019 France / Cour de cassation/18-85299/ECLI:FR:CCASS:2019:CR01530 Religion Muslims During the programme "C à vous" (Over to you) broadcast on the France 5 television channel on 6 September 2016, during which he gave an interview, Mr H. made the following remarks at four different points during the conversation with a journalist: first passage, the answer "No" to the question whether "there are Muslims in France who live in peace, who do not interpret the texts of the Koran to the letter, who are totally integrated"; second passage, "the… View more
France Court of Cassation (Cour de cassation) 2019 France / Court of Cassation/19-81631/ECLI:FR:CCASS:2019:CR01817 Religion Muslims On 13 September 2016, an article was put on line on the site saintnazairebleumarine.fr., entitled ‘The alarming sacrifice of Eid al-Adha (Aïd el-Kébir) in a Saint-Nazaire sports hall’ containing the following, ‘we learn that the Council grants organizational facilities through lending of rooms to associations responsible for such practices. The sports halls of our municipality are places for development at the service of sport, public health and our youth. They are not theatres of agony and… View more
France Court of cassation (Cour de cassation) 2017 France / Court of cassation / Decision No. 15-87415

ECLI:FR:CCASS:2017:CR00492
Religion Muslims Following the publication, on 1 March 2013, on the site www.bvoltaire. com of a text entitled 'What do we do with Muslims once the Koran has been banned?', the public ministry ordered Mr. X., director of website, and Mr Z., author of the text, to appear directly before the criminal court, on the grounds of incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence towards a group of people because of their origin or their membership of an ethnic group, a race, a religion or a given nation, and… View more
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