The French justice charged two 13-year-old teenagers with gang raping and threatening to kill a 12-year-old Jewish minor near Paris, in a context of concern about the increase in anti-Semitism in the country.
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The victim reported the events that occurred on Saturday night in Courbevoie, a city located northwest of Paris.
The minor explained that three teenagers approached her and dragged her to a shed, when he was in a park near his home with a friend, according to a police source.
The suspects beat and sexually abused her while “threatening her with death and hurling anti-Semitic insults” at her.specified this source.
A protester holds a banner that reads “Jewish girl raped, the Republic in danger.”
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His friend managed to identify two of the attackers. The three teenagers were arrested and taken into police custody on Monday, before being brought to justice on Tuesday, the prosecutor’s office indicated.
The court ordered preventive detention against two of the teenagers for gang rape, death threats, insults and anti-Semitic violence. The third defendant, 12 years old, is accused of all crimes, except rape, according to the public ministry.
The attack shook the Jewish community, in a context of concern in France over the increase in anti-Semitic acts since the bloody attack by the Islamist movement Hamas on October 7 in Israel, which responded with a deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The chief rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia, said on the social network
Along the same lines, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, asked that schools organize “a time of discussion” on the fight against racism and anti-Semitism, his entourage indicated.
Demonstrations against anti-Semitism after the rape of a Jewish girl in France.
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Anti-Semitic acts skyrocketed in France, which is home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, in the first quarter of 2024 to 366a progression of 300% compared to the same period in 2023, according to official figures.
A case that shakes the electoral campaign in France
The attack also occurs in a tense electoral context in France, where polls project a victory for the extreme right. in the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7.
The far-right and right-wing oppositions, and Macron’s centrist alliance, accuse the Insoumise France party (LFI, radical left) and its leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon of being “anti-Semitic.”
“The stigmatization of Jews for some months now by the extreme left, using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a pretext, is a real threat to civil peace,” said far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
The leader of the French Rassemblement National (RN) party, Marine Le Pen (i), addresses the militants.
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“Everyone will have to be fully aware on June 30 and July 7,” he said, referring to the dates of the legislative elections in which his party, the National Rally (RN), appears in the lead in the polls.
The leftist alliance New Popular Front, which includes LFI, however has the fight against anti-Semitism in its electoral program. Its main leaders denounced the aggression.
“Horrified by this rape (…) and everything it reveals about the conditioning of male criminal behavior from an early age and anti-Semitic racism,” Mélenchon wrote on the X network.
Shortly afterwards, the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, replied, recalling some controversial statements by Mélenchon, in which he had pointed out that anti-Semitism was a “residual” phenomenon and that it is “totally absent from popular rallies.”
The head of Justice later participated in a demonstration organized in the capital by a human rights group against anti-Semitism. growing in the country, which brought together hundreds of people in front of City Hall.
“Let the ‘irresponsible’ politicians stop stoking hatred at the expense of the Jews,” said Sarah Aizenman, president of the collective “Nous vivrons” (We will live), founded the day after the Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7. .
Dupond-Moretti noted that “anti-Semitism is not something residual” in France and added that “to attack a Jew is to attack the entire country.”
Similar demonstrations took place in other cities in the country with similar slogans.
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