Far-right violence in France: “First, we have an increase in the number of murders”

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A report from the Center for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo highlights that France is one of the few countries in Western Europe where terrorism and far-right violence are intensifying. There are two types of violence: racist violence, which targets ethnic and religious minorities, and anti-left violence, which targets political opponents. Decryption by Erwan Lecœur, sociologist, specialist in populism and the French far right, associate researcher at the Pacted laboratory at the University of Grenoble Alpes.

Kurdish demonstrators hold up portraits of activists killed in 2013 and victims of the attack of December 23, 2022 in Paris, January 7, 2023 (illustrative photo).

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