The assailants, aged 12, 13 and 14 years old, allegedly grabbed the young girl from a park near her house and dragged her into a shed where they hit and raped her, “while making death threats and anti-Semitic remarks.
French police arrested three teens for allegedly assaulting and raping 12-year-old girl in a brutal antisemitic attack Tuesday.
The assailants, aged 12, 13 and 14 years old, allegedly grabbed the young girl from a park near her house and dragged her into a shed where they hit and raped her, “while making death threats and anti-Semitic remarks.
One alleged assailant allegedly called her a “dirty Jew,” The Jewish Chronicle reported. One of the alleged assailants was her former boyfriend. The minors reportedly partially admitted to the charges during the course of a judicial hearing and confessed that they were motivated out of a sense for revenge.
The boyfriend’s cellphone allegedly showed him making antisemitic comments and images like a burnt Israeli flag, according to the outlet. A second suspected assailant allegedly told law enforcement he was motivated to harm the girl because she uttered anti-Palestinian views, the French media outlet reported.
The prosecutor’s office stated that two of the three were charged with aggravated rape, sexual assault, attempted extortion, violence committed during a meeting against a minor under 15 years old. The third suspect “was placed under the status of assisted witness concerning the acts of rape, and indicted for the rest of the offenses referred to in the introductory indictment.”
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