LILLERS | “My Lola, my beloved little sister. We will miss you ”: several hundred people, moved, attended Monday in the north of France at the funeral of Lola, whose savage murder at the age of 12 upset the country.
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The white coffin, adorned with a bouquet of white flowers, was carried in silence to the church in Lillers, followed by his parents, his brothers, his relatives and a crowd of anonymous people.
“My Lola, my beloved little sister, I hope you can hear me from up there. Unfortunately, you left far too soon. I couldn’t tell you how much I loved you,” said one of his brothers, Thibault, in tears.
“Your departure today devastates and destroys us. Our grief is immense”, had previously delivered one of his relatives.
Lola, assaulted and asphyxiated, was found on October 14 in a trunk in the courtyard of her building in Paris.
The main suspect in the crime is a 24-year-old Algerian, Dahbia B. Arrested the day after the events in the Paris suburbs, she was charged with the rape and murder of Lola and placed in pre-trial detention, solitary confinement, Fresnes prison, located in the southern suburbs of Paris.
She was in France in an irregular situation, being subject to an obligation to leave the territory.
This situation has caused controversy in France, the far right and part of the right accusing the government of “laxity” in terms of immigration, the executive castigating for its part “the indecency” of this “political recovery” .
Originally from the north of France but living in Paris, Lola’s family had decided to open the funeral to the public, while reaffirming their desire to “honor the memory” of Lola “in serenity”, “respect and dignity”. The burial was to take place in the strictest privacy.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin was present inside the church.
Outside, dozens of people were gathered to listen to mass. Among them, Sabine Vizenski, in tears, came with her three grandchildren. “It was my grandchildren, Lola’s age, who asked to come,” she said. “We are here to show our support as best we can.”
From the gates of his residence to the mailboxes of the municipalities where his relatives lived, thousands of anonymous people sent their condolences. “Thank you all for your support,” Lola’s mother wrote in a Facebook post shared more than 20,000 times.
In front of the family’s Parisian home, a few people continued to gather on Monday, near a low wall covered with hundreds of bouquets, stuffed animals, messages or even small paintings representing children’s hands.
“What affects us all? It is the atrocity of this crime”, was moved on Friday President Emmanuel Macron, affirming that the family of the girl had “need the respect and the affection of the nation”.