(Observer Network News) Recently, a horrific murder occurred in the French capital Paris, a 12-year-old girl named Lola was brutally killed, and the body was put into a suitcase. The case shocked the whole of France and attracted the attention of French President Emmanuel Macron.
According to a report by the British Reuters on October 21, Macron, who attended the EU summit in Brussels, made public comments on the homicide for the first time in an interview with the media on the same day. He denounced the case as an "extremely evil atrocity" and called on the French public to unite in solidarity with the victims' families.
Screenshot of Reuters report
"My first thoughts are Lola's parents and her brother, a united and dignified family that is suffering at the moment and I think they need the respect and support of the state." Macron said, "When we face extreme evil, it is disturbing that we experience that these things can happen in our society. ”
AFP said that Macron had met with Lola's parents on the 18th local time. The French presidential palace said in a statement that Macron offered his condolences to the families of the victims and pledged his full support to Lola's family.
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According to the French "Le Monde" reported on the 17th, the murdered 12-year-old girl Lola was a student at the Georges Brasens School in Paris. At about 5 p.m. local time on October 14, Lola's mother, Delphine, anxiously went to the police station to call the police because she was delayed waiting for her daughter to come home from school, and posted photos on social media for help.
Delphine's husband, the caretaker of the apartment building they live in, checked surveillance video and found that Lola was last seen around 3:20 p.m. that day, when she was also next to a woman in her 20s. Later, the woman was seen walking out of the building with a suitcase.
Shortly after Delphine called the police, a homeless man contacted the Paris police late at night local time on the 14th. He reported that a suitcase containing a body was found near a building a few blocks from Lola's house. The French police confirmed that the victim was the missing Lola, and the autopsy showed that the cause of her death was asphyxiation.
France's BFMTV reported that when the suitcase was found, Lola's hands and feet were tied, her face was wrapped with duct tape and she had multiple cuts on her throat. The killer also wrote the numbers "0" and "1" on her body in red ink.
French police said that the 24-year-old woman seen by Lola's parents in surveillance video was the main suspect in the case, and she was charged with multiple crimes such as "murder of a minor under the age of 15" and "sexual abuse of a minor." The suspect has now been arrested by the police.
Surveillance footage of a 24-year-old female suspect
Citing information disclosed by French police, BFMTV said the suspect was an unemployed Algerian immigrant with "mental problems". She arrived in France in 2016 with a student residence permit, but the document has now expired. On August 21, she was arrested for lack of a valid residence permit, when the French government had asked her to leave the country within 30 days. Before the incident, the suspect was living in the home of her 26-year-old sister, in the same building as Lola's family.
In addition, a 43-year-old man was also charged with "hiding bodies". The man admitted to French police that he had driven the murderer and the suitcase of the body to the northern suburbs of Paris after the crime.
While Macron expressed his condolences to the families of the victims, French right-wing politicians are using the suspect's illegal immigration status to lash out at the government's immigration policy. Agence France-Presse said that Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far-right political party National Alliance, questioned Prime Minister Elizabeth Born in the National Assembly on the 18th, asking him to provide an "uncompromising solution to ensure that the law is implemented and respected."
"Le Monde" mentioned that a number of French far-right politicians led by Eric Zemmour, leader of the "Reconquer Party", also organized a rally on the 20th to commemorate the murdered girl Lola. Although organizers banned political slogans and slogans, slogans such as "deportation of immigrants" rang out before the rally ended.
French Interior Ministry Darmanin denounced the actions of right-wing politicians as "outrageous acts", accusing them of trying to use the murder to gain political capital, "All parents are worried about this tragedy, and Lola's parents also want to mourn their daughter quietly." We are doing our best to make them respected... Politicians need to consider the consequences of their words and actions. ”
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