Brian McDonald
Two teenagers from a Paris suburb have been preliminarily charged with raping a 12-year-old girl and religiously motivated violence, French authorities said Wednesday. A Jewish leader said the girl is Jewish.
The attack raised widespread shock and concern, particularly following a rise in anti-Semitic acts in France since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. President Emmanuel Macron called on schools to hold a “discussion hour” for teachers to talk to their students about racism and anti-Semitism this week following the incident.
The girl told police she was raped by boys using anti-Semitic insults, according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the Nanterre region.
Macron was quick to condemn the incident and call for discussions in schools as he fights for his political future, with France in the midst of an unexpected three-week election campaign. Macron called early parliamentary elections following a disappointing result for his party in European parliamentary elections earlier this month.
On Wednesday, the president’s office said Macron asked Education Minister Nicole Belloubet “to organize a discussion in all schools on the fight against anti-Semitism and racism, to prevent hate speech with serious consequences infiltrate schools.”
The girl reported the rape in the city of Courbevoie on Saturday, and three boys, aged 12 and 13, were detained, according to the regional prosecutor’s office. It said two of the boys received several preliminary charges on Tuesday, including aggravated gang rape against a minor under 15, violence and public insult motivated by religion, death threats, attempted extortion and illegal recording or transmission of sexual images. .
The two boys are in custody pending further investigation, prosecutors said. The third boy was named as an auxiliary witness to the alleged rape and placed in a special education program.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office did not specify the girl’s religion or disclose her identity, in accordance with victim protection policies, as is common practice in hate crimes in France. French media reports and the city’s mayor called it an anti-Semitic attack and identified the girl as Jewish.
Later, lawyer and Jewish leader Elie Korchia said in an interview with French broadcaster BFM that the girl is Jewish and that the war in Gaza was referenced during the attack.
Political leaders across the spectrum denounced the attack. Early legislative elections in France are scheduled for two rounds, on June 30 and July 7, and the far-right National Rally party, currently leading in opinion polls, has sought to make security and immigration key issues of the campaign.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin described the attack as “horrific” and said the police were limited in their ability to prevent such violence. “It’s a parental problem… of authority. It’s a problem for society as a whole,” he told BFM television.
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