A Lyonnais recounted the violent attack of which he was the victim early Sunday morning. He claims to have suffered head and facial trauma which “made him lose all memory of the attack” The Stop Homophobia association has mandated its lawyer to represent the plaintiffs.
“I am angry and frustrated. I located the individual, we can identify him. But despite all the compilation of information, nothing happens,” laments Lucas in a press release published by the association. In 2022, 4,040 anti-LGBT attacks were recorded by the police or gendarmerie. An increase of 3% in one year, in line with a report which has more than doubled since 2016. Paris recorded in 2023, “631 incidents of homophobic attacks, compared to 531 in 2022”. Only 123 of the cases had been solved. A rally was organized at the end of March on Place de la République in Paris, in support of Amos, a young man who was a victim of a homophobic attack in a bar.