On Friday, February 19, 2016, the Shoah Memorial signed an agreement with the Lyon Court of Appeal to establish a citizenship course conducted by the Memorial teams for perpetrators of racist or anti-Semitic offenses.
As part of its 2015-2017 action plan, the Interministerial Delegation for the Fight against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Dilcra) signed a convention with the Shoah Memorial on the symbolic day of January 27, 2016, which has thus become one of the actors in the implementation of this action plan.
This plan provides in particular for the development of alternative measures and penalties with a pedagogical value for offences of a racist or anti-Semitic nature. The
For two days, the perpetrators of racist or anti-Semitic crimes take part in a seminar comprising numerous workshops relating both to the processes of construction and the historical consequences of racism, anti-Semitism and genocide. The aim is to raise awareness of the harmful effects of racism and anti-Semitism, at whatever level, to remind people that these are not opinions but crimes and that they run counter to our country’s republican values of tolerance and fraternity.
This citizenship internship has already been put into practice following the signing of an agreement with the Paris High Court in January 2014.
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On Friday, February 19, 2016, the Shoah Memorial and the Lyon Appeals Court signed an agreement to set up a citizenship race led by the Memorial’s teams for people convicted of committing racist or anti-Semitic crimes.
On the symbolic day of January 27, 2016, the Interministerial Delegation of the Fight against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Dilcra) and the Shoah Memorial signed an agreement making the Memorial one of the players that will implement its 2015-2017 action plan.
The plan will develop awareness-raising alternatives to penalties for racist or anti-Semitic crimes. The Shoah Memorial’s citizenship course (see below) is a suitable tool for achieving that goal.
For two days, individuals convicted of racist or anti-Semitic crimes attend a seminar including many workshops on the construction and historical consequences of racism, anti-Semitism and genocide. The goal is to raise awareness about the harm of racism and Semitism, whatever the level, and recall that they are not opinions crimes against France’s republican values of tolerance and fraternity.
The course was already implemented after the Memorial signed a convention with the Paris criminal court in January 2014.
