Several hundred people took part in the funeral of the girl, whose wild murder has turned the country upset. Thousands of people have sent their condolences, by messages or in front of the grids of his residence.
Le Monde with AFP
Several hundred people took part on Monday October 24 in Lillers (Pas-de-Calais), in the funeral of Lola, 12, whose wild murder has turned the country upside down. The family had opened these funeral to the public, while reaffirming Sunday evening their desire to honor Lola’s memory in “respect and dignity”, far from all political agitation.
On the benches of the church were neighbors on rue Manin, in Paris, where the girl lived, and friends of the Pas-de-Calais campsite where the family spent her vacation. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and other political figures, including the deputy for the constituency, Caroline Parmentier (national rally), were in the front rows.
Burial in the Lillers cemetery, a commune of 10,000 inhabitants from which the mother of the girl is originally, was to take place “in the strictest intimacy” at the end of the afternoon.
“The words may seem useless”, recognized M gr
é> olivier Leborgne, bishop of Arras, who celebrated the funeral. Evoking “Lola, 12, not only left too early, but in unbearable circumstances”, he called not to “stay locked up in suffering”.
“affection of the nation”
The tragic circumstances of the death of the child, violated, suffocated and found on October 14 within a trunk in the courtyard of his building, aroused great emotion in the country. Thousands of people have sent their condolences, whether by emails or in front of the gates of his residence. “Thank you all for your support,” wrote Lola’s mother Friday on Facebook.
“My Lola, my adored little sister, I hope you hear me up there. Unfortunately, you left too early. I couldn’t tell you how much I loved you” , said at the microphone one of his brothers, Thibault, in tears. “Your departure today devastates us and destroys us. Our sorrow is immense. Without a doubt, we will endeavor to honor your memory, my little princess”, had previously delivered one of his relatives.
“What touches us all? This is the atrocity of this crime”, moved the President of the Republic on October 21, Emmanuel Macron, saying that Lola’s family had “needed the respect and affection of the nation “. The presence in France of the suspect, Dahbia B., Algerian under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), aroused strong criticism on the right and the far right, the government castigating “indecency “From this” political recovery “.