France: Racism and fascism (1)
01 January 1991
France: Racism and fascism
artdoc August=1994
FN election results
The Front National scored well in provincial elections at the end
of March. Although it won only three seats out of 2000, FN
candidates doubled their tally of votes compared to similar
events in 1986. The FN obtained over 40 per cent of the vote in
Nice, some boroughs of Marseilles and Parisian suburbs (Jewish
Chronicle)
New race discrimination legislation
A new bill will be put before parliament in September providing
for up to two years imprisonment for racial discrimination,
hatred, or violence, and widening existing legislation to make
it possible to prosecute theorists of racist ideas as well as
publishers. Racist groups will be defined as criminal
conspiracies and the statute of limitation will, it is proposed,
be amended to make it possible to prosecute racists up to one
year after the offending remarks (Weekly Journal 21.4.94).
Meanwhile, the anti-racist organisation MRAP is taking two
second-hand booksellers in Paris to court for selling anti-
Semitic literature (Liberation 12.3.94).
IRR European Race Audit no 9, July 1994. Contact: Liz Fekete
Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS
Tel: 071 837 0041