After murder of Lola in Paris, government says it should “do better” on expulsions of immigrants

implicated by the right and the extreme right on the issue, the government assured Wednesday, by the voice of its spokesperson, that “the time did not come to do a political trial” and a praised the “courage” of Lola’s parents.

Le Monde

Five days after the murder of little Lola, 12, in Paris, the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, said on Wednesday October 19, that the government was to “do better” on the expulsions of immigrants irregular, after being implicated by the right and the extreme right on this case.

“We are working hard to ensure that the evictions” are “followed by effects”, but “we must obviously do better,” he said following the Council of Ministers .

The main suspect of the murder of Lola, Dahbia B., a 24 -year -old Algerian, was indicted on Monday for “murder” and “aggravated rape” and imprisoned. It had entered legally into France in 2016 with a student residence permit, but was the subject of an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) since last August.

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The government spokesman was thus questioned on this subject by journalists following the challenges of the government in this case on the migratory subject, by elected representatives (LR) and the National Rally (Rn).

Tuesday, during questions to the government, deputies Eric Pauget (LR, Alpes-Maritimes) and Marine Le Pen (RN, Pas-de-Calais) notably referred the executive to his helplessness in the fight against the illegal immigration, whose far right has been doing its honey for years. “Using the coffin of a 12-year-old girl as one uses a step, it’s a shame!” Replied the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti, to the applause of the majority and the ‘Together of the left, marking their reprobation together with what they denounce as a “political recovery”.

The day before, it was the presidents of RN and reconquest !, Jordan Bardella and Eric Zemmour, who had mirror the tributes of the Head of State at the Ballon d’Or Karim Benzema, French of Algerian origin, Or to the Algerian demonstrators killed by the French police on October 17, 1961 in Paris, and his silence on crime. The Elysée has meanwhile said that Emmanuel Macron had received the victim’s family on Tuesday.

While the Ministry of the Interior said that 20 % of OQTFs have been executed since the beginning of the year, taking into account voluntary returns, “the level of respect for OQTF today is the maximum level known During the quinquennium of President Sarkozy, “said Véran on Wednesday. “We have multiplied by almost twenty the number of OQTF to Algeria compared to last year, which was a fairly exceptional year, given the situation on the COVVID,” he added.

“The time has not come to do a political trial”

During his arrest on the subject, the government spokesman also invited the elected opposition elected officials who controversial to show “dignity”, after having reported that the Council of Ministers had praised the “courage” of the Parents of Lola “who face the inexpressible”.

“The time has not come to do a political trial, political overexploitation, as we have seen it for a few days, it is the wish of the family,” criticized the minister, recalling: “You have millions of families who recognize themselves in the parents of the little Lola and it strikes us all, it marks us all and it horrifies us all “.

“Obviously we want the firmest convictions, obviously we want justice to take its course as quickly and as firmly as possible,” he added, before concluding: “There is a lot of answers that we must obtain and it is not to a person in charge of a political party, to a parliamentarian or to journalists today that to do this work, it is up to the justice to do so and therefore We respect the time of justice “.

/Media reports.