‘The virus has no nationality’: Asians in France protest against hate crime

Rising anti-Asian violence is a problem not only in the US, where incidents of racial violence have been growing amid the pandemic. Reports of violence and verbal abuse against ethnic Asians have also been increasing across Europe, including in the UK, Germany and Italy. In France, several dozen people gathered on March 24, 2021, outside a Paris court where five men were being tried for alleged online incitement of violence against Asians.