AhlulBayt News Agency - Anti-Muslim acts in France tripled in 2015, with peaks in activity coming after two sets of deadly terror attacks, a government advisory commission said Monday.
A total of 429 anti-Muslim threats or hate crimes were reported last year, up from 133 in 2014, according to a report from France's National Human Rights Commission (CNCDH).
Two "peaks" in abuse came after extremists attacked satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 and a subsequent assault in November that killed 130 people in Paris, said CNCDH president Christine Lazerges.
Overall, complaints of hate threats or crimes saw a "consequential increase" of just over 22 percent to 2,034 in 2015, the commission noted in its annual report on the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia.
However, anti-Semitic hate acts fell in 2015 to 808, a five percent drop over the previous year.
Still Lazerges pointed out that the results include only reported crimes and that the true rates are much higher.
"Day-to-day racism is much more subtle," she said.
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