PARIS (Reuters) - A total of 1,870 victims of homophobic or transphobic crimes were identified by the police last year in France, 36% more than in 2018, the interior minister announced on Saturday.
These figures "are part of a larger context of increasing hate acts and identity extremism," he said in a statement.
"This increase in anti-LGBT acts calls for an even greater mobilization of all public actors and civil society to fight prejudice, discrimination and anti-LGBT hate acts", he added.
The victims of these offenses were mainly men (75% in 2019) and young people (62% are under 35). More than a third (36%) of these offenses took place in cities of more than 200,000 inhabitants, outside the urban unit of Paris.
Insults and contempt represented 33% of the offenses suffered, while violence (physical and sexual) to the person represented a share of 28% in 2019, the ministry said.
(Jean-Stéphane Brosse, edited by Gwénaëlle Barzic)
