The boyfriend of a 12-year-old Jewish girl who was raped and beaten by teenagers in an abandoned Paris building was sent a video showing her sobbing during the attack, with the message “Look at your girlfriend”

• Two 13-year-olds were accused of carrying out the brutal attack

It has been revealed that the boyfriend of a 12-year-old Jewish schoolgirl who was gang-raped in Paris was sent a video showing her sobbing during the ordeal.

Two 13-year-olds were accused of carrying out the brutal attack and threatening to kill the girl.

She was reportedly taken to an abandoned building in La Défense, the financial district in Courbevoie, the western suburb of the French capital, and repeatedly attacked last Saturday.

For legal reasons, none of the children involved in the alleged anti-Semitic crime can be named, but friends of the girl revealed disturbing details.

An adult who knows the victim well said: “She has a boyfriend who has a video of the gang rape on his phone.”

“There was just a message next to the video: ‘Look at your girlfriend.'”

The video shows the girl crying and at least one of the three attackers was known to the boyfriend, the source said.

Two boys were charged with “gang rape, death threats, and insults and violence of an anti-Semitic nature.”

Nanterre prosecutors have indicated that if convicted, they face a maximum sentence of ten years in the juvenile section of an adult prison.

This is half the sentence that an adult would face if successfully prosecuted for gang rape and would certainly mean that the boys would spend the rest of their childhood behind bars.

The third suspect, 12 years old, was classified as a “rape witness” and charged with related offenses.

At 13 years of age, he is not yet criminally responsible and, if convicted, would only have to undergo “supervision in a selected educational institution,” the prosecution source said.

According to details of the case, which are widely known in France, one of the attackers was the girl’s ex-boyfriend.

An investigative source said: “The girl went out at 3pm on Saturday with her parents’ permission to meet her current boyfriend.”

“She was approached by two teenagers and forcibly dragged into a shed adjacent to a disused kindergarten as she returned home through a park near her parents’ house in a high-rise building in La Défense.”

“Then a third minor joined them and insulted the young girl because of her religion, calling her a dirty Jew.”

According to the girl’s initial testimony, she was beaten, thrown to the ground and photographed with mobile phones.

The boys allegedly said they would blackmail her with the pictures and then that they would burn her while holding a lighter to her face.

The girl was then subjected to various sexual acts and was told that she would be “killed” if she spoke to the police.

One of the attackers is said to have blackmailed the girl by asking her to come back the next day and give him 200 euros – about 170 pounds.

The attackers initially left the teenager in the hut, but then she returned home and told her parents what had happened.

A gynecological examination confirmed that the girl had been repeatedly raped, and shortly afterwards the accused were arrested.

According to further reports in French media, the boys all come from the neighboring suburb of Rueil-Malmaison.

It is alleged that the ex-boyfriend was angry because the victim hid her Jewish origins from him and had a negative opinion of Palestinians.

Anti-Semitic images found on the boy’s cell phone are said to have included a burning Israeli flag.

Members of France’s Jewish community – the largest in Western Europe – expressed their horror at the attack.

Haïm Korsia, the country’s chief rabbi, said he was “horrified” and said “in the face of this unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism, no one should be pardoned.”

Jacques Kossowski, the mayor of Courbevoie – which includes La Défense – condemned “a heinous act” and called for those responsible to be punished “regardless of their age”.

According to official figures, anti-Semitic acts in France increased threefold in the first months of 2024 compared to the same period last year. The reason given was the war between Israel and Hamas.

Of the 1,676 anti-Semitic acts recorded in 2023, 12.7 percent occurred in schools.

President Emmanuel Macron told parliament that more must be done to combat anti-Semitism in schools.

Macron spoke solemnly and seriously about the “scourge of anti-Semitism” in a cabinet meeting and called for a “dialogue” about racism and hatred of Jews in schools to prevent “hate speech with serious consequences” from “penetrating” classrooms, a government source told AFP.

Marine Le Pen, figurehead of the extreme right, whose Rassemblement National party is predicted to do well in the elections, accused the “extreme left” of “stigmatizing Jews” since the war between Israel and Hamas began.

Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the far-right party “La France Inségée” (LFI), who is accused of downplaying the significance of anti-Jewish attacks, condemned “anti-Semitic racism”.

Courbevoie’s centre-right mayor Jacques Kossowski condemned the “heinous act” and demanded that the perpetrators be punished with the full force of the law “regardless of their age”.