(Radio France International).- Two 13-year-olds were charged Tuesday with night of gang rapedeath threats, anti-Semitic insults and the abuse of a 12-year-old girl in Courbevoie (Haute-Seine), near Paris, an incident that sent shock waves through the Jewish community and beyond.

The victim reported on Saturday evening about the events that occurred in Courbevoiea city located northwest of Paris.

The minor explained that Three teenagers approached her and dragged her into the barnwhen he was in a park near his home with a friend, according to a police source.

The suspects beat her and “forced anal and vaginal penetration, fellatio, threatened to kill her and insulted her with anti-Semitic slurs,” the source said.

His friend managed to identify two of the attackers. The three teenagers were arrested and taken into custody on Monday and appeared in court on Tuesday, prosecutors said.

The court ordered preventive detention against two teenagers for gang rape, death threats, insults and anti-Semitic violence. The third defendant, 12, is charged with all crimes except rape, the department said.

The attack shocked the Jewish community amid concerns in France of a rise in anti-Semitic attacks following the deadly Oct. 7 attack by the Islamist Hamas movement in Israel, which responded with a deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip.

On Wednesday morning, the Nous Vivrons collective, formed in the wake of Hamas’s bloody attack on Israel, called for a demonstration in front of Paris City Hall at 6:30 pm that same day to “condemn the anti-Semitic rape of this young woman.” woman.”

The chief rabbi of France, Chaim Corsia, announced this on social media.

Anti-Semitic acts rose sharply in France, home to Europe’s largest Jewish community, to “366” in the first quarter of 2024, a 300% increase over the same period in 2023, according to official data.

The attack also comes amid a tense election situation in France, where polls predict a far-right victory in legislative elections on June 30 and July 7.

The far right and right-wing opposition, as well as President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance, accuse the Insoumise France party (LFI, radical left) and its leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon of “anti-Semitism.”

The left-wing New Popular Front alliance, which includes LFI, included the fight against anti-Semitism in its election program.