France jails six youngsters for violent muggings of Chinese
- The assailants were jailed for two to six years for the violent attacks on some 20 people of Chinese origin in 2018
- France’s Chinese community is often targeted because of stereotypes that they are wealthy
Six French youngsters were jailed for two to six years on Friday for the violent muggings of some 20 people of Chinese origin, in the latest case of “anti-Asian racism”.
Aged 18 to 21 when the incidents took place in 2018 in Paris and its outskirts, they would wait outside restaurants popular with the Asian community, a court in the city of Bobigny heard.
They acted methodically and showed “real professionalism,” the prosecutor had said on Thursday.
They would follow their victims, all of Chinese origin, “to their home” where they attacked them violently and robbed them.
The prosecutor said they were targeted “due to their ethnic group,” underscoring the racist nature of the crimes as an aggravating circumstance.
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She added that two to three violent robberies on Asian people take place every week in Seine-Saint-Denis, a region on the outskirts of Paris where many people of Chinese origin work in the textile sector.