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Though France's homicide rate fluctuated substantially in recent years, it tended to decrease through 2020 - 2024 period ending at 6.96 cases per 100,000 population in 2020 and 6.9 cases per 100,000 in 2021 and 6.62 cases per 100,000 in 2022 and 6.5 cases per 100,000 in 2023 and 6.31 cases per 100,000 in 2024 [1]
Children born in France are not immigrants, so the expression "second-generation immigrants" could be considered a misnomer. According to anti-racist associations such as SOS Racisme , this reflects the ambiguity of the administration, who consider these people to be both French and foreign at the same time [ citation needed ] .
Anti-French sentiment was strong in the wake of France's refusal to support US proposals in the UN Security Council for military action to invade Iraq. While other nations also opposed the US proposals (notably Russia; China; [7] and traditional US allies, such as Germany, Canada, and Belgium), France received particularly ferocious criticism ...
Increased violence against France's Jewish population over the last few years have driven many away. Last January, for example, armed Islamists killed four hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris.
Anti-French sentiment (Francophobia or Gallophobia) is the fear of, discrimination against, prejudice of, or hatred towards France, the French people, French culture, the French government or the Francophonie (set of political entities that use French as an official language or whose French-speaking population is numerically or proportionally large). [1]
A sensitive urban zone (French: Zone urbaine sensible, ZUS) is an urban area in France defined by the authorities to be a high-priority target for city policy, taking into consideration local circumstances related to the problems of its residents. [1] On the 26th of December 1996, 750 ZUS were founded by the décret n°96-1156.
Tuesday’s killing was the third fatal shooting during traffic stops in France so far in 2023. Last year there were a record 13 such shootings, a spokesperson for the national police said.
In the shorthand of "Europe" (a British usage, standing for the European Union or European integration), it may refer to Euroscepticism, criticism of policies of European governments or the European Union. [1] In the context of United States foreign policy, it may refer to the geopolitical divide between "transatlantic", "transpacific" and ...