June 19, 2024 | President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday denounced the “scourge of anti-Semitism” after authorities charged two 13-year-old boys with the gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a Paris suburb. The attack, suspected to have been motivated by anti-Semitism, has sent shock waves through the Jewish community and added to tensions ahead of a snap election that could bring the far-right National Rally to power for the first time. FRANCE 24’s Angela Diffley tells us more.
June 20, 2024 | Three French boys were arrested in the gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Paris in a sickening antisemitic attack, police said — prompting President Emmanuel Macron and other officials to demand schools crack down on racism and hate-fueled violence.
The victim, from Courbevoie, told police the boys raped her, made death threats and hurled antisemitic slurs at her during the assault on Saturday.
The girl was specifically targeted over her religion, the Nanterre public prosecution office said.
Chief Rabbi of France Haim Korsia said he was “horrified” over the attack and called on his nation to crack down on such despicable acts of antisemitism.
“Justice must firmly punish the perpetrators of this despicable act. No one can be excused from this unprecedented antisemitic surge,” Korsia wrote on X.
June 21, 2024 | Hundreds of people gathered at Bastille square answering a call from various leftist parties, unions and NGO’s a day after the alleged rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a suspected antisemitic attack.
June 21, 024 | The rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a suspected anti-Semitic attack has sent shockwaves throughout France and thrust concerns about antisemitism to the forefront of campaigning for the country’s legislative elections. France 24’s Angela Diffley takes a look.
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