Discrimination in everyday life?
Case No.1: Night club
Nadir is a 21-year-old Albanese man awaiting the regularisation of his immigration status. With a group of French friends, they organise a last minute boozy meal at one of their homes and want to end the night in a trendy nightclub. When they get to the door of the nightclub, the bouncer lets Nadir’s friends go inside but refuses Nadir entry for no apparent reason.
Nadir tries to join his friends but the bouncer grabs him violently and pushes him to the ground, threatening him and calling him a “dirty gypsy”.
Nadir feels that because of his origins, he was treated worse than his French friends, yet they were in the same situation as him.
Faced with this unjustified difference in treatment, what can he do?
The refusal to let Nadir enter because of “racial profiling” constitutes a form of discrimination that I punishable by law.
A merchant cannot refuse access for a client to his establishment on the basis of his religion, his sex or like here, his origin.
Furthermore, the insults and threats are more heavily sanctioned if they are committed because of the victim’s belonging to a determined ethnic group, nation or religion.
Nadir can therefore get in touch with the Defender of Rights and report the attitude of the bouncer: https://www.defenseurdesdroits.fr/defender-rights-311