Muslim teen who gang-raped 12-year-old Jewish girl has sentence cut | World | News
A Muslim boy who took part in the gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl as she walked home has had his sentence reduced. The male, who was 13-years-old at the time, was one of multiple boys who committed the act of sexual violence in Courbevoie, France, on June 15 last year. He was initially jailed for nine years, but this has now been reduced to seven after an appeal at the appeal court in Versailles. It said there was a need to prepare him for “reintegration” into society.
“The court took into account the entire case as provided for by law: the facts, their seriousness but also the personality of the minor and the need to prepare for future reintegration,” his lawyer Melody Blanc said. The girl was ambushed by three boys, who forced her to perform sex acts on two of them as they threatened to kill her. One held a lighter to her face, then tried to force her to sit on her handbag after setting it on fire.
According to the girl’s mother, who spoke to Le Parisien, one attacker asked her: “I know you’re not Muslim… So, what religion are you?”
The boys then called her a “dirty Jew”, and went on to film the assault.
Afterwards, they demanded that she converted to Islam, and made her swear on Allah that she would not tell anyone about what had happened, GB News reports.
The victim was present for the initial trial of the two boys at Nanterre Juvenile Court in June 2025.
A third attacker was aged under 12 during the incident, and so could not face criminal prosecution.
He was instead sent to an educational facility for five years.
After the original sentencing, the girl told CNews: “It’s important for me to speak out because the very fact I spoke out meant he was quickly arrested and imprisoned.”
She added: “By doing this, I protect myself and I protect others; so they cannot do this to others.”
“There is no doubt that [the victim] would not have been assaulted or raped if she had not been Jewish,” the presiding Judge said during the first proceedings.
They also noted the boys’ “concerning personality traits”.
