Islamophobia in France

IQNA

IQNA – With a 72% increase in Islamophobic acts in early 2025 compared to 2024, tens of thousands of Muslims are leaving France, marking a human tragedy that raises urgent questions about the country’s commitment to its own values.
News ID: 3494999    Publish Date : 2025/10/14

IQNA – The Paris Grand Mosque deplored desecration of the Quran by an unidentified man inside a mosque in central France, urging the authorities to take serious action against Islamophobic hate crimes.
News ID: 3494823    Publish Date : 2025/10/01

IQNA – Two-thirds of Muslims in France say they have faced racist behavior, according to a new survey that highlights widespread discrimination across jobs, housing, and public services.
News ID: 3494642    Publish Date : 2025/09/17

IQNA – Foreign nationals are suspected of placing pig heads outside several mosques in the Paris region before leaving France, prosecutors said.
News ID: 3494561    Publish Date : 2025/09/11

IQNA – Authorities in France have opened an investigation after pig heads were discovered outside several mosques in the Paris area.
News ID: 3494553    Publish Date : 2025/09/10

IQNA – French authorities have launched an investigation after an arson attempt against a Muslim prayer hall in Châtillon-sur-Seine, an act condemned by officials as cowardly and anti-Muslim.
News ID: 3494266    Publish Date : 2025/08/16

IQNA – French authorities have reported a 75% increase in anti-Muslim acts during the first five months of 2025, with attacks against individuals more than tripling compared to the same period last year.
News ID: 3493712    Publish Date : 2025/07/04

IQNA – Local authorities in Isère, southeastern France, are investigating a vandalism incident at the “Al-Hidayah” mosque in Roussillon.
News ID: 3493646    Publish Date : 2025/06/29

IQNA – A Muslim theology school in France slammed the government’s push to dissolve it, warning it would have consequences.
News ID: 3493570    Publish Date : 2025/06/24

IQNA – The dominance of the far-right over the political scene in France has grown in recent years and the anti-Muslim project of Minister of Interior Bruno Retailleau is one of its indications.  
News ID: 3493385    Publish Date : 2025/06/09

IQNA – French Muslims leaving France were asked in a recent survey to identify their reasons for leaving the country.
News ID: 3493374    Publish Date : 2025/06/08

IQNA – A 27-year-old man who set fire to a Quran outside the Errahma Mosque in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, is scheduled to stand trial on July 30, the Lyon public prosecutor’s office confirmed on Thursday, June 5.
News ID: 3493350    Publish Date : 2025/06/07

IQNA – A Quran desecration in Lyon, France, has drawn condemnation, with police launching an investigation into the incident.
News ID: 3493323    Publish Date : 2025/06/04

IQNA – The French government has been slammed for targeting a European organization dedicated to fighting anti-Muslim bigotry.
News ID: 3493279    Publish Date : 2025/05/30

IQNA – Muslims in France feel increasingly exposed to "constant suspicion," following the publication of excerpts from a government-commissioned report on Muslim political communities.
News ID: 3493194    Publish Date : 2025/05/22

IQNA – An investigation has been initiated into allegations of “incitement to hatred based on religion,” according to a statement issued Thursday afternoon by Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren, the public prosecutor in Orléans.
News ID: 3493104    Publish Date : 2025/05/16

IQNA – Roughly 300 individuals gathered outside the French Embassy in Brussels on Sunday to pay tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, a young man who was killed in a mosque in southern France in late April.
News ID: 3493058    Publish Date : 2025/05/12

IQNA – Thousands of people marched through Paris and other French cities on Sunday to protest a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment and to pay tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, a young Malian man killed in a mosque.
News ID: 3493053    Publish Date : 2025/05/12

IQNA – A French man accused of stabbing a worshipper to death at a mosque in southern France has been formally charged with premeditated murder motivated by race or religion, the Nîmes prosecutor’s office said on Friday.
News ID: 3493030    Publish Date : 2025/05/11

IQNA – Italy extradited to France the suspect in the case of murder of a young man in a French mosque.
News ID: 3493009    Publish Date : 2025/05/10