The minor suspect judged this Wednesday for voluntary violence – Liberation

He had been filmed byAggress in the street the Rabbi of OrleansArié Engelberg. The minor suspected of « Voluntary violence committed due to membership or the non-belonging, real or supposed, from the victim to a religion » must be tried this Wednesday, April 23 before the Créteil children’s court. The hearing must take place behind closed doors and the young man, who says he is 16 years old and is placed in pre -trial detention, will also be tried for psychological violence on the son of the rabbi, present at the time of the attack. The suspect « Is also being prosecuted for refusing to submit to the statements and samples to establish its identity and for the use of narcotics », had specified the prosecutor of the Republic of Orleans, Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren, with Release March 24.

Saturday March 22, shortly before 2 p.m., Arié Engelberg was taken to task in the street by a young man who asked him if he was Jewishbefore insulting him, spit in his direction and biting him. Quickly arrested and then recognized by the victim, the suspect first said he was Palestinian, before admitting that he was Moroccan.

Returning in detail on the assault, the Orleans prosecution explained on March 24 in a press release that« A quantity of 2 grams of cannabis resin (had been found » On the suspect, also involved in three other legal proceedings, conducted between October 2024 and December 2024 « For acts of drug trafficking and voluntary violence against persons depositaries of the public authority in Marseille, and aggravated theft in the town of Orleans ». With each arrest, the suspect declined a different identity. Doubts about his minority also existed but the prosecution noted in his last communication in March that« No element makes it possible to question the state of minority (the suspect) declares ».

In response to the attack, Emmanuel Macron had denounced the « poison » anti -Semitism, and promised not to yield « Neither silence nor to inaction ». “The assault of the Rabbi Arié Engelberg in Orleans shocks us all. I send him, as well as his son and all our compatriots of Jewish confession, all my support and that of the nation ”, had written on X the head of state. A silent march had also been organized in Orléans on March 25.

According to figures from the Interior Ministry, 1,570 anti -Semitic acts were identified in 2024down approximately 6 % compared to the previous year. Anti -Semitic facts represent 62 % of anti -religious acts and are made up of 65 % of damage to people. This is not the case for other religions for which the damage to property is in the majority. The CRIF had deplored a level in January « historical » of these attacks for the second consecutive year, with a « blast » After October 7, 2023, the date of the unprecedented attack in Hamas in Israel.