The rape of a Jewish girl in France puts the focus of the end of the campaign on anti-Semitism

Last weekend, three minors aged 12 and 13 were recorded insulting, hitting and raping their partner for hiding their Jewish origin from them. The tragic story happened in the city of Courbevoie, in the Ile-de-France region, which also includes Paris. The French newspaper The Figaro revealed that the instigator of the attack was of Portuguese origin. The girl’s father said in an interview with The Parisian that his daughter “was victim of a clearly anti-Semitic act linked to the assimilation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in France.”

The leader of the extreme right, Marine Le Pendirectly linked that event to what he called “the stigmatization of Jews” by “the extreme left,” in a statement on his X account. Le Pen noted that “the explosion of anti-Semitic acts, with a rise of 300% compared to the first three months of 2023, should alert all French people: the stigmatization of Jews for months by the far left by instrumentalizing the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is a real threat to civil peace.” “Everyone will have to be fully aware of this on June 30 and July 7,” he said, referring to the dates of the legislative elections in which his party, the National Rally (RN), is leading in the polls.

Le Pen was thus directly aiming at The Insoumise France (LFI), which has been the subject of many reproaches for its attitude towards the war in Gaza, and in particular for not wanting to classify Hamas as a terrorist group, although its coalition agreement with the other left-wing parties does qualify the attacks against Israel on 7 October as “terrorist”. In the New Popular Front of the left, the founder of LFI, Jean-Luc Melenchonsaid at a rally in Montpellier that the RN “is Macron dressed up as racism” and harshly criticised those on the far right and the Macronist bloc for accusing his party of anti-Semitism. “They are using the fight against anti-Semitism in a vile way to attack us,” he said.

[Tres menores violan a una niña de 12 años tras descubrir que les había ocultado su origen judío]

The 12-year-old victim met her attacker at an intercollegiate sports event at the end of May. The relationship between the two was romantic: She wrote to him “my love” and he replied “my beloved wife.” Additionally, they texted each other “I love you” and sent photos of them kissing to their friends. A week before the rape occurred, the relationship took an unexpected turn when he wrote in a post on Instagram, before blocking it: ““Come on, go eat shit, you smell bad (…) You, rat head, go fuck yourself!”It remains unknown whether she had discovered at that time that she was Jewish. After being raped she explained that She lied about her religion, claiming that she was Muslim, as a precaution “to protect herself” and “avoid any type of aggression.”.

The victim’s mother explains in an interview with Le Parisian that They made “Nazi salutes and jokes about the Holocaust”, the genocide carried out during World War II (1939-1945), and they also drew “swastikas on desks”Moments before being thrown to the ground and raped, her ex-boyfriend called her “dirty bean” and threatened to burn her cheek with a lighter.

The victim’s family’s lawyer, Muriel Ouaknine-Melki, said in an interview with You Figaro that he “reproached her for being against Palestine and supporting Israel” for being Jewish. “The issue of Palestine was predominant from the beginning to the end of the Calvary.” The instigator’s profile photo on Tik Tok reads ‘Stop Genocide’ in the colors of the Palestinian flag. In fact, he spoke to at least three different colleagues, according to reports You Figarothat He converted to Islam in March, the month in which Ramadan was celebrated. He used to practice Christianity. “She did not tolerate the idea that she was Jewish,” Ouaknine-Melki said, and for that reason she “became a target of criticism for being Jewishand therefore for supporting the interests of Israel, against Palestine, for supporting a genocidal, murderous State… The whole litany that we have heard since October 7, in almost all parts of France.”

At the end of April, the prestigious French university Sciences Po in Paris began its university protests following the example of Columbia University in New York. The president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF), Yonathan Arfi, expressed on the LCI channel that movement is “dangerous” considering that “what happens in universities does not concern only the students, but also It radiates to our entire country; political and intellectual life and leaves consequences for generations“. “Our daughter has experienced anti-Semitism firsthand“the victim’s father said in an interview with You Parisian and the mother, according You pointsaid he lives in a sick society, in which the entire “society must contribute to our recovery.”

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France is home to the largest Jewish community in the world after Israel and the United States, in addition to being the European country with the largest Muslim community on the continent, it indicates. Times of Israel. Since October, hatred and anger have been seen on social media and in public debates and have been repeated everywhere, explains Ouaknine-Melik. “These words of hate, spread and accessible everywherecould be recorded in minds that are not yet fully formed or mature, especially in young people, and lead to the commission of criminal acts. “The aggressors, explains the father, took away his childhood,” the shock It brings back memories and flashbacks at night.

The lawyer for the victim’s girl’s family told the French radio station RMC that There will be psychological and psychiatric monitoring to help the little girl stop having nightmares, that after eight days, they continue to keep him awake at night. She relives, during the day, different moments of the attack she suffered. Although the attackers expressed regret for what they did, nothing can “contradict that the motive, which is very evident from the beginning, was clearly anti-Semitic.”

“I remind you that it is the body of a 12-year-old girl who has been desecrated and rapedin particularly terrible and difficult conditions. After the rape, you now have to deal with physical health problems and take the necessary medication, when at 12 years old, you have been forced to have sexual relations.” The three are accused of participating in a group sexual assault, repeated death threats and aggravated violence, extortion (attempted), and insulting the victim for belonging to the Jewish community.