By JORDANA SEAL

Published: 09:03 BST, 7 June 2025 | Updated: 09:08 BST, 7 June 2025

Three boys aged 12 to 13 who ‘gang-raped’ a Jewish girl in an abandoned hanger in a Paris suburb while hurling anti-Semitic insults at her will go on trial. 

The trial is part of an investigation into ‘gang rape, death threats, insults, and anti-Semitic violence.’

It will take place behind closed doors inside a juvenile court. 

Last June, local prosecutors opened an investigation into the rape and the alleged perpetrators were identified as three boys aged 12, 13 and 14 from Rueil-Malmaison, in the Hauts-de-Seine suburb northwest of the French capital.

The boys were charged with counts of aggravated rape, aggravated sexual assault, attempted extortion, invasion of privacy, threat of death, violence and insults.

With the latter two being aggravated due to them admitting the attack was related to the girl’s religion.

The 12-year-old girl from Courbevoie, also in Hauts-de-Seine reported the rape to police in June 2024.    

She said she went to the Henri Regnault square with her boyfriend when three teenagers grabbed her and took her to an abandoned hangar on the site of an old nursery nearby. 

Three boys aged 12 to 13 who 'gang-raped' a Jewish girl in an abandoned hanger in a Paris suburb while hurling anti-Semitic insults at her will go on trial

Three boys aged 12 to 13 who ‘gang-raped’ a Jewish girl in an abandoned hanger in a Paris suburb while hurling anti-Semitic insults at her will go on trial

The three boys allegedly beat the girl and insulted her religion before raping her.

She told police that she had been called a ‘dirty Jew’ by her attackers, who had asked her questions about Israel.  

The boys appeared in front of the police and reportedly admitted to the rape.

Afterwards rallies against anti-Semitism were organised across the country.

According to the French Ministry of the Interior, in 2024, a total of 1,570 anti-Semitic acts were recorded in France.  

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Three boys aged 12 to 13 ‘who gang-raped Jewish girl while hurling anti-Semitic insults and condemning Israel’ go on trial in France

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