Cries of "dirty French", "Gawerer" ("dirty white" in Arabic), he was attacked with a knife by three men of twenty years. One of the few cases of anti-white racism must be judged on Friday afternoon at the High Court of Paris. "It happened two years ago, in September 2010, tells me Naïma Moutchou, counsel for the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), plaintiff in the trial. Very early in the morning, Gare du Nord, a young man, Arnaud has been thrashing by three assailants, apparently without reason. "Only one of the attackers was found, thanks to the video. He will be tried before the 13th correctional chamber to violence leading to temporary interruption of work (ITT) over 10 days. Even if he denies having made racist, the racist nature of the attack was identified as an aggravating circumstance. "There are witnesses who heard the insults, it's rare," says Moutchou me. "There is little case law on the subject," said the lawyer, citing a precedent in Nancy in 1998, with a conviction for racial slur and another at Douai in 2008. "But this is the first time, she says, that we are a civil party in a case of violence with the anti-white racism as an aggravating circumstance. "For me Moutchou," this process is important, but do not ignite it is a form of racism as another, neither more nor less. " According to a recent survey by the INED, 18% of the population "majority" (the French born in France to French parents) would have been "the target of insults, racist remarks or attitudes." ALSO READ:
