Having a quick look at the crime statistics, France doesn&#x27;t seem to be a hotbed of crime and violence at the moment.<p>According to what I could dig up from Google, it&#x27;s had a homicide rate of 1.2 per 100,000 people and a serious assault rate of 299 per 100,000 people over the last couple of years.<p>Those are respectively slightly higher (1.2 vs 1.0) and significantly lower (400 vs 299, although data collection methodologies may be different) than the UK where I live, which is generally considered to be a reasonably safe country crime-wise.<p>(Didn&#x27;t really have time to dig into other crime categories - would be interested to hear if they buck the trend.)<p>Not claiming your statement isn&#x27;t true, but unless I&#x27;m misreading the statistics the effect doesn&#x27;t seem to be a massive crime wave.