The Memorial will organize a citizenship internship at the Court of Appeal of Lyon

As part of its 2015-2017 action plan, the Interministerial Delegation for the Fight against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Dilcra) signed an agreement with the Shoah Memorial on the symbolic day of 27 January 2016, who thus became one of the actors in the implementation of this action plan.

This plan notably provides for the development of alternative measures and penalties with a pedagogical value for offences of a racist or anti-Semitic nature. The citizenship course designed by the Shoah Memorial (see below) thus constitutes an appropriate framework for implementing such measures.

WHAT IS A CITIZENSHIP INTERNSHIP AT THE SHOAH MEMORIAL?

For two days, the perpetrators of racist or anti-Semitic offences participate in a seminar comprising numerous workshops relating both to the processes of construction and to the historical consequences of racism, anti-Semitism and genocide. The objective being to raise awareness of the evils of racism and antisemitism, at whatever level, to remind that these are not opinions but offenses and that they are contrary to the republican values of tolerance and fraternity of our country

This citizenship internship has already been put into practice following the signing of an agreement with the Paris Court of First Instance in January 2014.

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