The rape of a twelve-year-old girl in Courbevoie in the 92nd arrondissement on Saturday, June 15, 2024, should not leave anyone indifferent, because it is rape and because she is very young. But the conditions of this rape as reported by the young girl to the police and disclosed in the press require us to react publicly: because the attackers are themselves minors of the same age as the young girl, and because they are very likely imitating, according to the story she reported, other attackers – adults – who, in Israel, raped and killed women because they were Jewish, and filmed themselves, sure of the heroism of their acts, valorized by the enjoyment of those who viewed their “exploits”. They will not be judged.
In France, these minor aggressors (small-time terrorists) will have to answer for their criminal acts.
The impact of ideological discourses on minors is the subject of the creation of our Observatory of ideological discourses on children and adolescents. We cannot fail to see who, in France, described the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel as an "act of resistance". We do not know who these young people are, but we cannot help but think that they find, in the discourses of adults conveyed by social networks and the media, a model and a justification to implement their aggressive and sexual impulses, fueled by an ambient and trivialized anti-Semitism. The virtuous but criminogenic discourses have produced a junior October 7 in France.
All our thoughts go out to this young girl and her family.
It seemed imperative to us to share with them our pain and our concern.
His wound is also our wound, and it is collectively that it will be able, or not, to heal.
Céline Masson and Caroline Eliacheff
co-presidents of the Observatory of ideological discourses on children and adolescents
