“Let’s not give in, let’s punish”: Emmanuel Macron reacts after the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Courbevoie

A firm statement. A little over a week after the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Courbevoie in Hauts-de-Seine, Emmanuel Macron reacted in a message posted on his X account this Sunday, June 23, 2024.

“Hit because Jewish”

“I think of this child attacked, beaten because she was Jewish, raped by other children,” declared the Head of State on the sidelines of a “march against anti-Semitism” organized this Sunday in Courbevoie, two days after a first gathering organized by the town hall.

“Let’s educate, let’s not give in, let’s punish. Anti-Semitism, racism and all hatred damages each of us,” added Emmanuel Macron.

On June 15, a 12-year-old girl was beaten and raped in Courbevoie by three teenagers because of his Jewish religion for “allegedly having spoken badly about Palestine”, according to his lawyer Me Oudy Bloch.

Since then, numerous marches against anti-Semitism have been organized throughout France, such as in Paris and Courbevoie.

Two suspects incarcerated

Two of the three attackers were indicted for “aggravated rape (meeting, on a minor under 15 years old and in the presence of minors), sexual assault in a meeting, attempted extortion, violence committed in a meeting on a minor under 15 years old and for of religion, invasion of privacy by fixing, recording or transmitting an image of a person of a sexual nature, repeated death threats and insults on grounds of religion. They were both imprisoned.

The third suspect was placed under the status of assisted witness for the acts of “rape” and indicted for the rest of the offenses. He is the subject of a provisional judicial educational measure with placement in a youth judicial protection center and medico-social care.

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