Three French minors suspected of raping a 12-year-old girl in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine) because she was Jewish got into trouble. The transalpine newspaper broke the news Le Parisien who told the story of the alleged sexual assault anti-Semite ended up on the desk of the Nanterre prosecutor’s office. The boys, aged between 12 and 14, were arrested by the police and are accused of aggravated rape, aggravated sexual assault, attempted extortion, assault on the privacy of private life and death threats. Yesterday they appeared before the judge for preliminary investigations for the first interrogations.
The arrest
The crimes of violence and insults, also mentioned in the judicial information, are “aggravated by their commission due to the victim’s belonging to the religion”added the prosecutor, who requested the precautionary custody of the suspects. The facts became public knowledge on Saturday evening after the complaint from the 12-year-old’s parents which led to the opening of a sensational investigationentrusted first to the Courbevoie police station, then to the territorial brigade for the protection of the family of Hauts-de-Seine.
The fact
The girl told the judges that she went to Henri Regnault square last Saturday in the town of the Hauts-de-Seine department with a friend when three teenagers, including her ex-boyfriend, also 12 years old, they would have taken to an abandoned hangar. There, her three very young men would have it dive and they would have addressed anti-Semitic insults to her and then abused her. The investigations conducted by the prosecutor’s office made it possible to identify the alleged perpetrators of the violence, who are 12, 13 and 14 years old. The three were then stopped and placed in custody, the youngest entrusted to a center for minors. The suspects would have partially admitted their guilt, stating that they had acted “for sale”he highlighted Le Parisienexplaining that the ex fiancé of the victim would have been “very angry because the girl allegedly hid from him that she was Jewish”.
The cellphone
Anti-Semitic phrases and images were found in the boy’s cell phone, including those of one Israeli flag burned. Another of the alleged perpetrators confessed to the police that he had hit the victim because he had used offensive words against Palestine. The 12-year-old was taken to a medical-legal center where the gynecological examination confirmed the violence she had suffered.
Anti-Semitic acts
As reported by Corriere della Seraanti-Semitic acts in France reportedly increased by 300%
In the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period of the previous year, and by the end of 2023 the increase would have been 1000%. The case of the Jewish girl is only one of the latest in chronological order.
