The hell endured by this 12-year-old girl in Hauts-de-Seine provokes strong reactions and interferes in the legislative campaign.
She says she was treated as a “dirty Jew” by her attackers: the circumstances of the rape and violence denounced by a 12-year-old girl in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine) become clearer on Wednesday June 19, 2024, after the indictment and the detention of two 13-year-old teenagers.
The young victim told investigators that one of the teenagers involved had “asked her questions about her Jewish religion”, asking her why she didn’t talk about it and asking her questions about Israel, a police source detailed. . He also called her a “dirty Jew.” Faced with the excitement caused by this affair, President Emmanuel Macron asked during the Council of Ministers that “a time for discussions” be organized in the coming days in schools on racism and anti-Semitism. “The fight against anti-Semitism must be that of all Republicans,” Prime Minister Gabriel Attal reacted on X, expressing “horror” and “revolt”.
Raped at 12 because she was Jewish.
The pain, first of all, and the total solidarity, with this young girl, her parents and her friends.
Horror and revolt, then, in the face of a monstrous and abject act.
Anger, again, in the face of those who divide us, oppose us, make…
— Gabriel Attal (@GabrielAttal) https://twitter.com/GabrielAttal/status/1803445647674130557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The victim’s painful story
The two 13-year-old teenagers were imprisoned on Tuesday. A third suspect, aged 12, was placed under the status of assisted witness for rape, indicted for the other offenses covered by the investigation and is the subject of a provisional educational measure, according to the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office. .
According to the victim’s initial statements, one of the attackers filmed the scene, which took place on Saturday in an abandoned premises in Courbevoie, at the foot of the La Défense business district, not far from the victim’s home. Another threatened to kill her if she reported the facts to the police.
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The young teenager was beaten and had anal and vaginal penetration as well as fellatio, according to police sources. The Parisian reports that the victim’s former boyfriend is among the alleged attackers.
“During their first appearance interrogation, the three minors made brief spontaneous statements, expressing regret towards the victim without addressing their involvement in the facts,” the public prosecutor said in a press release.
A resounding news item in the middle of the electoral campaign
“Sordid”, “abject”: in the middle of the electoral campaign, this affair arouses numerous reactions on both sides of the political spectrum. The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced on has been attacking France since October 7″ and the bloody attacks carried out by Hamas in Israel. Marine Le Pen (RN) attacked the “extreme left” head-on, denouncing a “stigmatization of Jews for months through the exploitation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”.
The SOS Racisme association provided “all its support to the victim and his family” in this “sordid affair”, recalling the “worrying” increase in anti-Semitic acts since October 7. In the Jewish community and beyond, the facts denounced by the young girl caused great emotion. In Paris, several hundred people gathered in front of the Town Hall at the call of the Nous Vivrons collective, in the presence of the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti. “This anti-Semitic rape is a continuation of a climate hostile to Jews,” denounced the collective.
The president of the Central Consistory, Elie Korchia, deplored on X “a sordid and despicable sexual crime which moves us deeply”. “No one can be exonerated in the face of this unprecedented anti-Semitic surge,” the chief rabbi of France Haïm Korsia commented on X, saying he was “horrified.” On the same social network, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif) expressed its “immense emotion at the tragic rape of this young girl”.
“Rape is a tool of destruction in the service of hatred and when children rape children, it is also society as a whole which must ask itself the question of its responsibility in the face of violence, anti-Semitism and misogyny in work in our country”, responded the Women’s Foundation. “It’s a despicable act, we can’t think that it still exists,” Jacques Kossowski, LR mayor of Courbevoie, told AFP. “What I hope is that justice can firmly condemn these attackers, whatever their age,” continued the councilor.
Increase in anti-Semitic acts
Anti-Semitic acts soared in France in the first quarter of 2024, according to government figures, which reported “366 anti-Semitic acts” recorded between January and March, an increase of 300% compared to the first three months of 2023. In January, Crif reported a sharp increase in anti-Semitic acts in France, which quadrupled in one year, going from 436 in 2022 to 1,676 in 2023, with an “explosion” after October 7.
