E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.3 page 23 Nationalist Party (the neo-Nazi PNFE) and who had carried out several other racist and political attacks since 1985, were arrested in January 1989 and sentenced in October 1991 by the Appeals Court in Nice; On 28 January 1989, in Montataire (60), a Frenchman of Algerian origin was killed following an altercation in a bar (the perpetrators were tried and imprisoned); On 8 May 1989, in Nice (06), there was an attempt on the life of a young Tunisian, who was critically wounded in the head by two bullets fired at point blank range; the accused was acquitted. From 1989 to 1991, the trend was reversed, with the volume of incidents and especially their seriousness declining considerably. In 1992, there was a sharp drop: Year Racist incidents Deaths Injuries 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 64 54 52 51 32 38 34 3 1 1 1 51 31 35 14 17 32 27 The remarkable decline in 1992 might be attributed to: The fact that activist movements (French Nationalist Party, Third Path) are so disorganized; The temporary weakening of the skinhead movement, leading to a drop in the number of acts attributed to it: 55 in 1989, including 17 racist acts 47 in 1990, including 17 racist acts 28 in 1991, including 9 racist acts 28 in 1992, including 10 racist acts 34 in 1993, including 17 racist acts 19 in 1994, including 12 racist acts The many arrests of skinheads - 558 - since 1989; The “wait-and-see” policy of “hard-core” elements, which appears to have put a stop to any acts they might have committed in anticipation of elections, in which they were counting on the rise of the extreme right.