Ethnic statistics are not totally forbidden, they're very strongly regulated. http://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2018/01/16/est-ce-que-les-statistiques-ethnique

Ethnic statistics are not totally forbidden, they're very strongly regulated. http://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2018/01/16/est-ce-que-les-statistiques-ethniques-sont-interdites-en-france_1652990 http://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2018/01/16/est-ce-que-les... Yet if tomorrow these statistics were allowed and were to show (for example) that 50% of people in jail are Muslim, what would be the use of that number? The far left would use it as proof of discrimination and the far right that muslims are a danger to society. Societies like the US where there's a "race" checkbox on forms and where ethnic statistics are legal, are far from being less racist or discriminatory...