PARIS (JTA) — A French nonprofit has launched a smart phone application for reporting anti-Semitic and other racist incidents.

The application released this week by LICRA, the France-based International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, allows users to photograph evidence such as offensive graffiti and send a geo-localized picture to LICRA for processing and removal by the authorities, the news site 20minutes.fr reported. The application also features a panic button which connects users with the police.

“You can’t fight racism and anti-Semitism in the 21st century as we did in the past,” LICRA President Alain Jakubowicz said.

“It’s a very good idea because it facilitates reporting, which in turn lends itself to treatment of the problem,”  Jonathan Hayoun, president of France’s main Jewish student union, told JTA.

On May 31, unidentified parties at Pantheon-Assas University in Paris carved a swastika into a door of the office of Hayoun’s Union of Jewish Students in France, or UEJF. A similar incident happened there in March.

The new application, however, is not suited for reporting anti-Semitism online, Hayoun said.

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