France loses its reputation

The UN committee against discrimination has accused France of "a new rise in racist acts" with regard to its Roma policy. In his blog for the weekly Le Nouvel Obervateur, Patrick Lozes, president of the black civil rights organisation CRAN, fears a radicalisation of French society: France is losing its good rating on respecting human rights and is de facto turning into the laughing stock of international bodies that fight racist discrimination. The repeated humiliations to which France - the country whose values are spread all over the world - is being subjected are regrettable. The multiple international condemnations of France's policy on minorities demonstrate to the rest of the world how France marginalises its minorities. The rise in discrimination and the fact that this escalation in racist discrimination is being condemned raise concerns that the actions of various French associations for the protection of minorities will become radicalised."

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