The Versailles Court of Appeal issued its ruling on Tuesday in the case of the antisemitic rape committed in Courbevoie in June 2024 against a 12-year-old girl. Of the three teenagers convicted in the first instance, only one appealed the decision: Dylan (name changed), 13 years old at the time of the events. The court upheld his guilt for all charges—rape, sexual assault, and antisemitic insults—but reduced his sentence from nine to seven years’ imprisonment, this time accompanied by an educational measure, Le Parisien reported .
The minor’s lawyer, Melody Blanc, welcomed the decision as “fair and consistent,” arguing that in the initial trial, “nothing had been taken into account” regarding her client’s personality. The Nanterre juvenile court had nevertheless found him involved in a deliberate ambush orchestrated by the victim’s ex-boyfriend, driven by a desire for revenge after discovering that the young girl was not Muslim but Jewish.
The ordeal suffered by the teenage girl, lured into the abandoned premises of a daycare center, lasted nearly an hour: five rapes, hair burning, antisemitic insults, and repeated humiliations. A third boy was sentenced to seven years in prison, a sentence he did not appeal. As for the instigator, who was under 13 at the time of the events, he could not be incarcerated and received a five-year educational sentence.
