Three French Youths Arrested in Alleged Antisemitic Gang Rape of Jewish Girl, 12

One suspect was angry she hid her religion from him; another was upset the victim was critical of Palestine.

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Police officers patrol in front of the Arc de Triomphe at Paris, July 1, 2023. AP/Christophe Ena

French police arrested three adolescents who are suspected of gang-raping a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a suburb of Paris in a vile act of antisemitism because the girl had not been upfront about being Jewish and had said negative things about Palestine. 

The victim, along with her parents, filed a rape report to the police this weekend alleging that the three youths led her to an abandoned hangar on site of an old nursery in Courbevoie, beat and raped her, threatened to kill her, and demeaned her Jewish religion, the French daily newspaper, Le Parisien, reports

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