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The facts – A national police census counts the first names among the 2,300 people arrested in the police zone during the riots following the death of Nahel in Nanterre on June 27.
The question of first names is often controversial. In L’archipel français, Editions du Seuil, Jérôme Fourquet pointed out the importance of Arab-Muslim first names given at birth to boys: they went from 0% of French first names in 1950 to 8% in 1980 and 19% in 2016. Community withdrawal, progress in diversity, pride in identity: the political scientist’s reference work has been both praised and criticized on this point.
The analysis of first names has a very political use today, in particular to decipher the profile of the rioters after the death of Nahel in Nanterre. The right claims that they are mostly of immigrant origin, as evidenced by their first names. Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, replies that the looters have “a lot of Kevins and Mattéos.”
What do the numbers say? On July 7, BFMTV publishes the list of the top 20 names of people arrested. The order is alphabetical, from Adam to Yanis via Mohamed and Hugo. “It would be interesting to have the numbers,” retorts François-Xavier Bellamy, LR MEP, convinced like all of the right and the far right of the link between the absence of assimilation (preferred word to that of integration) and participation in violence. The postulate is that North African-sounding first names would indicate the place of birth of the parents or grandparents.
The Opinion was able to have access to an encrypted distribution. It concerns the 2,300 arrests made in the police zone. That is to say the whole of France, minus the (rural) gendarmerie areas, Paris and the three departments of the inner suburbs: Hauts-de-Seine (92), Seine-Saint-Denis (93) and Val-de-Marne. This is a census made by the national police. We find, in descending order:
Muhammad: 81
Yanis: 31
Enzo: 25
Maxim: 21
Adam: 19
Lucas: 18
Jordan: 15
Rayan: 14
Brian: 14
Nathan: 13
Nicholas: 13
Ali: 13
Hugo: 13
Alexis: 13
Yacin: 11
Theo: 11
Ibrahim: 10
Paul: 10
The rest of the first names are scattered in much smaller numbers.
In the sample that l’Opinion was able to consult, the proportion of Arab-Muslim first names (Mohamed, Yanis, Rayan, Ali, Yacin, Ibrahim) represents 160 people out of a total of 335.
The facts – A national police census counts the first names among the 2,300 people arrested in the police zone during the riots following the death of Nahel in Nanterre on June 27.
The question of first names is often controversial. In L’archipel français, Editions du Seuil, Jérôme Fourquet pointed out the importance of Arab-Muslim first names given at birth to boys: they went from 0% of French first names in 1950 to 8% in 1980 and 19% in 2016. Community withdrawal, progress in diversity, pride in identity: the political scientist’s reference work has been both praised and criticized on this point.
The analysis of first names has a very political use today, in particular to decipher the profile of the rioters after the death of Nahel in Nanterre. The right claims that they are mostly of immigrant origin, as evidenced by their first names. Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, replies that the looters have “a lot of Kevins and Mattéos.”
What do the numbers say? On July 7, BFMTV publishes the list of the top 20 names of people arrested. The order is alphabetical, from Adam to Yanis via Mohamed and Hugo. “It would be interesting to have the numbers,” retorts François-Xavier Bellamy, LR MEP, convinced like all of the right and the far right of the link between the absence of assimilation (preferred word to that of integration) and participation in violence. The postulate is that North African-sounding first names would indicate the place of birth of the parents or grandparents.
The Opinion was able to have access to an encrypted distribution. It concerns the 2,300 arrests made in the police zone. That is to say the whole of France, minus the (rural) gendarmerie areas, Paris and the three departments of the inner suburbs: Hauts-de-Seine (92), Seine-Saint-Denis (93) and Val-de-Marne. This is a census made by the national police. We find, in descending order:
Muhammad: 81
Yanis: 31
Enzo: 25
Maxim: 21
Adam: 19
Lucas: 18
Jordan: 15
Rayan: 14
Brian: 14
Nathan: 13
Nicholas: 13
Ali: 13
Hugo: 13
Alexis: 13
Yacin: 11
Theo: 11
Ibrahim: 10
Paul: 10
The rest of the first names are scattered in much smaller numbers.
In the sample that l’Opinion was able to consult, the proportion of Arab-Muslim first names (Mohamed, Yanis, Rayan, Ali, Yacin, Ibrahim) represents 160 people out of a total of 335.