In the midst of a tense climate in France due to early elections, A tremendous crime against a 12-year-old girl shocks the European country. According to the girl’s complaint, last Saturday, three teenagers between the ages of 12 and 13 gang-raped her, beat her and shouted “dirty Jew” at her. The entire political spectrum condemned the event and fueled the discussion of anti-Semitism.
The incident occurred last Saturday in Courbevoie, a Parisian suburb, according to what the victim reported to the police. On Monday, the alleged perpetrators of the crime were arrested and, shortly after the crime became known, there were protests in the French capital that called for justice and demanded to fight against anti-Semitism.
According to the girl’s complaint to the Paris police, last Saturday she was intercepted by two boysone of whom he vaguely knew, while returning home with a friend. The boys forced her to follow them to a disused daycare center. Then another boy joined in.
When you arrive at the nursery, The last boy called her a “dirty Jew” and they threw her to the ground, beat her and even threatened to burn her. Finally, they gang-raped her and threatened to kill her again if she told what happened. Then the attackers left her and left her alone in the abandoned daycare.
The girl returned home and told what happened to her parents, who notified the police. After a quick investigation, they were able to arrest three boys who would be the perpetrators of the crime. They were accused of “aggravated rape, aggravated sexual assault, attempted extortion, invasion of privacy, death threat, violence and insults”these last two crimes being aggravated by their commission due to the religious affiliation of the victim.
The case shocked the electoral campaign
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The case put the discussion about anti-Semitism and hate speech at the center of the electoral campaign. All political parties and candidates in the June 30 elections expressed their “horror” and repudiation of the crime. For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron called for a debate on the fight against anti-Semitism and racism in all schools.
Macron this Wednesday asked to the Minister of Education, Nicole Belloubet, “to organize a debate in all schools on the fight against anti-Semitism and racism, to prevent hate speech with serious consequences from infiltrating schools,” reported the French president’s office.
In this days several politicians condemned the incident and they asked to eradicate anti-Semitism that, some denounce, has increased since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip unleashed by the Hamas attack on Israeli lands on October 7.
He socialist leader Olivier FaureI affirm that “The fight against anti-Semitism must be waged without weakness and without respite“. The candidate for the legislative elections of the New Popular Front, Emmanuel Gregoire maintained that “the fight against anti-Semitism must be a absolute priority. Absolute.”
Even from the right they expressed their repudiation of anti-Semitism. The far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, denounced in X “the stigmatization of Jews for months by the far left.”
While, the leader of France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchonaccused of being anti-Semitic because he does not classify Hamas as a terrorist group, said be horrified” for the rape.
Source: Ambito
