Increase in number of anti-Muslim acts

At least as many anti-Muslim acts have taken place in France since the terror attacks this month, as during all of last year, a leading Muslim group has reported.

The French Council for the Muslim Religion said 128 anti-Muslim actions or threats were reported from January 7 to 20 — a number that does not include the densely populated Paris region. That is compared to 133 in all of France, including Paris, in 2014.

Three Islamic extremist gunmen carried out the attacks, which began on January 7 with the killing of 12 people at the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

Since then, mosques have suffered a grenade attack, shots and repeated vandalism, and stores owned by Muslims have been burned.

At least one person was assaulted said Abdallah Zekri, of the National Observatory Against Islamophobia.