Investigation opened in France into a possible anti-Semitic rape of which a 12-year-old girl was allegedly the victim . The alleged attackers are 3 teenagers between 12 and 14 years old . Le Parisien reports it. According to the newspaper, the girl, accompanied by her parents, reported to the police station in Courbevoie, a suburb of Paris, that she had been raped.

She said she was with a friend when 3 peers, including her ex-boyfriend, also 12 years old, took her to an abandoned hangar and then beat her and insulted her because of her religion . The victim was then raped , always threatened "with death with anti-Semitic phrases", we learn from investigation sources.

The investigations conducted by the prosecutor's office made it possible to identify the alleged perpetrators of the violence, who are 12, 13 and 14 years old. The three were placed in custody, the youngest entrusted to a center for minors.

The charges they face are serious: from aggravated sexual violence to death threats, all aggravated by the fact that they were committed in reference to the victim's belonging to a religion.

The 3 minors would have partially admitted their guilt, claiming to have acted "out of revenge", claims Le Parisien, explaining that the victim's ex-boyfriend would have been "very angry because the girl would have hidden from him that she was of the Jewish religion".

Anti-Semitic phrases and images were found in the boy's cell phone, including those of a burned Israeli flag. Another of the alleged perpetrators confessed to the police that he had hit the victim because he had used offensive words against Palestine.

The victim was taken to a medical-legal center where the gynecological examination confirmed the violence she had suffered.

(Unioneonline/vl)