France is in shock after the brutal killing of a 12-year-old girl in Paris last Friday. The details of how young Lola met her death are too gruesome to describe, but the news that a 24-year-old woman has been charged with the crime has deepened the disbelief. The fact that the woman is an Algerian national, living in France illegally after her student visa expired, has caused uproar.
While Emmanuel Macron received Lola’s parents at the l’Élysée on Tuesday, his political opponents blamed his government for the death of the child. ‘Lola lost her life because you did not proceed with the expulsion of this national,’ said centre-right Republican MP Eric Pauget. In the National Assembly on Tuesday Marine Le Pen addressed a question to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne: ‘The suspect of this barbaric act should not have been in France. What are you waiting for to be able to act so that this uncontrolled illegal immigration is finally stopped?’
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