A 24-year-old woman accused of the horrific murder and rape of a 12-year-old girl whose body was found in a plastic box in Paris last week had been living in the country illegally for several years, a French government official said.
The killing of the girl, identified only as Lola Daviet, has triggered an intense political debate on President Emmanuel Macron’s immigration policies after the country’s media reported that the 24-year-old suspect was an illegal immigrant from Algeria.
“The suspect in this barbaric act should not have been in our country,” Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right National Rally party, said Tuesday during a heated National Assembly session, demanding that Macron’s government put a stop to “uncontrolled immigration.”
French government spokesman Olivier Veran confirmed to reporters Wednesday that the suspect lived in the country illegally for three years.
Veran said that when the 24-year-old woman landed at Paris’s Orly airport in August, authorities noticed her flawed immigration status and issued her an order to leave French territory before letting her in.
“We are profoundly shaken, faced with the horror and the pain,” the spokesman said.
Lola was found dead Friday night in Paris, a few streets away from the building where she lived, hours after her parents reported her missing when she never returned home from school.
An autopsy showed that the girl died of “cardio-respiratory failure with signs of asphyxia and cervical compression,” Paris prosecutors said. The coroner’s report also cited wounds to her face, back and neck and injuries consistent with sexual assault.
Her father, who works as a concierge in the building, used security camera footage to retrace the girl’s footsteps. Prosecutors said the father told police that video shows his daughter enter the building with an unknown woman who later appeared alone in a hallway, carrying what appeared to be a heavy suitcase.
The 24-year-old woman was arrested Saturday in a northeastern suburb of the capital. She remains in custody on charges of murder and rape of a minor, torture, acts of barbarity and concealment of a corpse, the Paris state prosecutor said Monday.
A 43-year-old man is also in custody, charged with helping to hide the girl’s body, according to a prosecutors’ statement.
While the motive for the killing of the girl is still under investigation, Veran called on lawmakers to cease political squabbling and support Lola’s parents.
“Like them, we want answers,” Veran said. “Like them, we want to punish with the needed tough stance warranted by atrocities that have been committed. It’s up to judicial authorities to do so.”
No! Tell me it isn’t so. I am stunned, actually. All this time, we have been told, over and over again, that illegal aliens are just here for, what was it, for the jobs American citizens won’t do? I think so, that’s what we have heard this, over and over, again and again.
No, I am lying to you, I am not stunned at all. These criminal illegal aliens have zero respect for our laws. The reason I know? Because, the very first act they accomplish by illegally coming here is to, wait for it…BREAK OUR LAWS! And then, we expect them to be honest, law abiding members of our community? Really??? Give me a break!!! Sheesh!
This is just one case. We have thousands of these cases everywhere we have an attack on Western societies. And nobody seems to give a spit except the “little people” who pay the salaries of these jackdonkeys who are supposedly in charge.
No penalty = no change.
Set up on USA border, put a bullet in every illegal that steps over the border.
You will only need to shoot a few, the rest will turn and run home.
Any extra bullets go in the head of every democrat supporting open borders
It’s exactly how Border was protected in Soviet Union.
The one crossing The Border ILLEGALLY was not considered like wanted freedom, better life or anything good.
The presumption was: person want to blow up bridge, poison water system or kill soviet people.
If he is trying ILLEGALLY cross The Border,- he is an ENEMY.
So, bullet in forehead with no questions or warning shots.
The ONLY answer to ILLEGAL aliens: ONE BULLET IN LESS THAN ONE SECOND – DONE!
Say it isn’t so. Somebody better contact the producers of the “Law & Order SVU” series and remind them that women CAN rape women