A 28 % increase in complaints for crimes and offenses to LGBT+ persons was observed compared to 2020, according to figures published Monday by the Ministry of the Interior.
Le Monde with AFP
Complaints for crimes and crimes committed to LGBT+ persons increased by 28 % in France in 2021 compared to 2020, according to figures published Monday May 16 by the Ministry of the Interior. If we take into consideration the year 2019, which preceded the COVVI-19 health crisis, the increase is reduced to 12 %.
In five years, over the 2016-2021 period, the number of anti-LGBT+ acts has doubled (+ 104 %), underlines in a note the statistical service of the ministry. In total, 2,170 crimes and crimes were recorded in 2021 by the police and the gendarmerie.
If we add the 1,620 drawings drawn up (more than 90 % for insult or defamation), the police have identified a total of 3,790 attacks “committed due to sexual orientation or gender identity “. A large majority of these damages in the broad sense concern insults and defamations (59 %), specifies the ministry.
rare approach to file a complaint
The victims rarely take the process of filed a complaint: only 20 % of LGBT+ assaulted or threatened persons denounced the facts to the police on average over the period 2012-2018, according to the survey of living environment . This rate drops to 5 % for insults.
These damage takes place in the majority of urban areas, 53 % in agglomerations of more than 200,000 inhabitants, even if “this proportion has decreased in the past two years”, underlines Beauvau.
Almost half of anti-LGBT + crimes and crimes take place in public space, the victims are mostly men (73 %) aged under 30 (51 %).