Thread: France sees an average of 120 knife attacks per day

France sees an average of 120 knife attacks per day

By Arthur Lyons 22 February 2020

New figures from the National Observatory of Delinquency and Criminal Responses (ONDRP) have revealed that on average, France sees as many as 120 knife attacks across the country every day.
As other forms of violent crimes surge around the country, ONDRP’s figures – sourced from a claim that between 2015 and 2017 there were about 44,000 victims of knife crime every year – come to an average of 120 per day, Le Figaro reports.
In France, an average of 118,000 people claimed to have been the victims of violent crime carried out by people they did not live with or know, with such as assaults occurring in public spaces like grocery stores, schools, and pubs, among other places.

Per the ONDRP’s figures, knives were the most common weapons to be reported in violent crimes, at 37 percent, followed by 34 percent who claimed they were attacked with stones or other kinds of blunt objects. Nine percent of respondents said they were attacked by firearms.
The dramatic uptick in violent crime is hardly limited to knife attacks. In fact, in the past 10 years, France has seen an explosion of homicides and homicide attempts. Since 2009, the number of murders and attempted murders has jumped from 1,767 to 3,168 in 2018.
French authorities have attributed this phenomenon to what they’ve called a “radicalization of behavior” that only seems to have seeped into the public’s consciousness in recent years.
Earlier in the month, Voice of Europe reported on the exploding levels of delinquency that have been seen so far in France in 2020.
In January 2020, the number of cases of intentional assault and battery rose to an average of 140 attacks per day, marking a 21 percent increase from last January.
Last month also saw acts of hostage-taking increase by 36.8 percent, kidnapping increase by 13.7 percent, and threats and blackmail increase by 9.6 percent. Thefts with knives were also up 21.6 percent from the previous year, while the number of sexual offenses increased by 14 percent from the previous year.
And just days ago, Voice of Europe, citing Le Figaro, reported that nearly half of the criminals in the Paris metro area are foreign nationals.
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Half foreign nationals and the other "half" their generations of offspring!