The gang rape of a Jewish girl in a Paris suburb amid anti-Semitic abuse has caused shock and stirred social tensions in France in the run-up to early legislative elections. Macron calls for reflection on racism and anti-Semitism.
The French president, Emmanuel Macronasked schools on Wednesday to organize a “debate time” on the fight against racism and the antisemitism this week, after the rape with anti-Semitic overtonesin which several minors allegedly participated, of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a Paris suburb added more tension to the charged social climate in France before early legislative elections.
For his part, the French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, said in an interview with FRTF1 on Wednesday that what happened “was absolutely despicable, unbearable and indescribable.” Attal added firmly that the alleged perpetrators “have been identified and detainedand obviously The penalties will be very severe and unappealable.“.
Three minors aged 12 and 13 were arrested This week after the parents of a 12-year-old girl from Courbevoie, west of Paris, reported to the police that the minor had been the victim of a group rape while receiving anti-Semitic insults, according to the Nanterre Prosecutor’s Office.
The complaint states that the minor was beaten and slapped, and they also pulled out his hair. One of the three minors had threatened to burn her. The complaint also states that she was raped several times by two of the three minors allegedly involved in the attack.
The incidents of antisemitism he increased in France since the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7 and the subsequent war in Gaza launched by the Hebrew State.
The event has generated commotion in the country, at a time of palpable social tensions due to the rise of the extreme right in the European elections of June 9 and the early call of Parliamentary electionwhich will be held next June 30 and July 7.
