Question 13278 — discrimination

Summary

Ms. Gabrielle Cathala questions the Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister, responsible for equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination, about the Government's inertia in the face of the rise of a fascist ideology which is leading to a significant increase in discrimination and violence against LGBTQI+ people. In 2024, the police and gendarmerie services recorded 4,824 anti-LGBTQI+ offenses, i.e. an increase of 5% in one year. This figure has tripled since 2016, illustrating a brutal and continuous deterioration in the social climate. The 2025 SOS homophobia report confirms this drift, emphasizing that the trivialization of hate speech breaks the social fabric and reinforces the dynamics of exclusion. This violence is not spontaneous; it is the armed wing of a neofascist ideology which is no longer hidden. On Saturday February 21, 2026, in Lyon, a neo-Nazi march brought together 3,200 people in an unbearable outburst of hatred. The videos attest to the presence of Nazi salutes and pack howls chanting insults such as “dirty fags”, “dirty races” or “dirty buggers”. How can the Government claim to fight against discrimination when it lets these small groups occupy public space to spread their hate speech which is subject to prosecution? criminal? This complacency feeds a feeling of impunity which arms the aggressors. This is evidenced by recurring homophobic ambushes, such as those tried in Avignon in February 2026 where victims were lured to isolated places to be severely beaten and filmed by their tormentors. Barbaric acts against LGBTQI+ people have crossed a new threshold in New Caledonia. On the night of February 8, 2026, at Nouméa, Joëlla, a 45-year-old trans woman recognized for her community involvement, was brutally beaten to death. The details of the autopsy are unbearable: she received around fifteen kicks to the head, causing “massive depression” of her face. The investigation focuses on transfeminicide, a crime at the intersection of the fiercest hatreds. This drama is not a news item. He is the product of systemic violence which particularly affects overseas territories, territories neglected by public prevention policies. Local associations, such as Rainbowlution New Caledonia, are warning of the urgency of strengthening the protection of LGBTQI+ people in the face of the continuum of violence ranging from hate speech to murder. Beyond the announcement effects, the reality on the ground is that of budgetary abandonment and an insufficiency of resources allocated to health and protection structures. The State can no longer be satisfied with symbolic responses when the physical integrity of overseas citizens is threatened by uninhibited homophobia and transphobia. Finally, how can we not mention the tragic fate of Caroline Grandjean-Paccoud, school director in Cantal, who killed herself on September 1, 2025, the day of the start of the school year? For months, she suffered lesbophobic harassment of incredible violence: tags “dirty dyke”, “pedophile dyke” and even death threats like “go die, dirty dyke” left in his mailbox. What killed Caroline was not just the anonymous insults, it was the systematic abandonment of her hierarchy. The national education investigation report, published on February 6, 2026, is clear: it concludes that there are “failings of the institution”. This The report highlights a managerial attitude of rare cruelty: when Caroline alerts after the first tag, the academic inspection responds: “It is not you who is attacked, but your position”. Her superiors questioned her to find out “if she really had nothing to be ashamed of” for attracting such hatred, thus reversing the guilt between the victim and the aggressor. Her superiors discouraged her from taking sick leave and offered him a transfer for any solution, as if it was up to the victim to flee the scene of his ordeal. Worse still, the inspector who had “never really supported” her was promoted shortly after the fact, a signal of total disregard for the teacher’s suffering. Caroline felt “crushed” by an institution which preferred to sue for defamation a cartoonist telling her story rather than track down her harasser. Recognition of the responsibility of national education in the form of financial compensation due to the widow of Caroline Grandjean-Paccoud must lead to an overall reflection on the lack of support from the institution for teachers in general and for its staff who are victims of discrimination in particular. The MP therefore asks him if the Government intends to initiate dissolution procedures against small groups. identity groups whose speeches and actions promote a climate of violence, like the Némésis collective or the organizations involved in the neo-Nazi incidents that occurred in Lyon on February 21, 2026. She also questions him about the disciplinary action that the Government plans to give to the conclusions of the investigation report of February 6, 2026, which establishes major institutional failures in the support of Ms. Grandjean-Paccoud, in order to guarantee that the administrative responsibility of the executives who have committed the fault is incurred beyond a proposal for financial compensation. Finally, she wishes to know the territorialized budgetary and human resources that the Government intends to mobilize to ensure effective protection of LGBTQI+ fellow citizens in the face of the progression of physical attacks throughout the national territory and in particularly in the overseas departments.

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