The trial, which is due to last until Friday, is being held at a juvenile court in Nanterre, a suburb of western Paris.
All three boys are charged with sexual assault on a minor as well as recording and sharing sexual images, aggravated by being committed on religious grounds.
She was dragged into a shed where the suspects beat her and “forced” her to have sex “while uttering death threats and anti-Semitic remarks”, one police source had told AFP.
The rape was filmed by one boy, and another threatened to kill the girl if she reported the ordeal to authorities, police sources said.
At the time, President Emmanuel Macron had denounced the “scourge” of anti-Semitism.
Reported anti-Semitic acts in France surged from 436 in 2022 to 1,676 in 2023, before dipping slightly to 1,570 last year, according to the interior ministry.
“Firstly, our client expects that the aggressors will be punished for what they did and that the punishment in in line with the gravity of their actions,“ Muriel Ouaknine-Melki, one of the victim’s lawyers, told the court on Wednesday.
“As we all know, there is an explosion of anti-Semitic acts in France,“ added Oudy Bloch, another one of the girl’s lawyers.
Clementine Berthier, the defence lawyer for one of the suspects, said she hoped “the trial would be serene and peaceful for all parties”.
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