Lola’s family asks to stop using “the name and image of their child for political purposes”

Eric Zemmour participated Thursday in a demonstration after the death of the middle school, killed by an Algerian national. The boss of the right -wing senators, Bruno Retailleau, wants to table a bill to engage “the responsibility of the State”.

Le Monde with AFP

Six days after the death of little Lola, killed in Paris, her family asked Friday October 21 that “ceases urgently, and be withdrawn, any use of the name and image of their child for political purposes” During demonstrations and on the Internet, said their lawyer, Clotilde Lepetit, in a press release.

His parents wish “to be able to honor the memory of their daughter in the serenity, the respect and the dignity which is due to him”, said M e lepetit, in the aftermath of a demonstration in Paris In the presence in particular of Eric Zemmour and during which some demonstrators bore the signs on which appeared the face of the middle school.

The national rally, which was initially to participate in the rally, finally organized a minute of silence at the same time in front of the National Assembly “in tribute to Lola and in support of his family and his relatives”. The circumstances of the death of Lola and the profile of the suspect, of Algerian nationality and under an obligation to leave French territory, aroused strong criticism on the right and the far right.

“Respect” and “affection”

The elected representatives Les Républicains (LR) did not participate in Thursday gatherings but the boss of the party senators, Bruno Retailleau, announced the upcoming deposit of a bill to engage “the responsibility of the State “When he” misses his obligations “, with possible” damages to the victims “.

A rally to “support family and relatives” of the victim is scheduled for Friday in Fouquereuil (Pas-de-Calais), commune from which the father of the young teenager is from the funeral scheduled for Monday at 2:30 p.m. In Lillers, city of origin of his mother, in the same department.

Friday, during a European Council in Brussels, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron considered that the family “needed the respect and affection of the nation”.

/Media reports.