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Dozens of people gathered on Friday in Fouquereuil (Pas-de-Calais) for a tribute to little Lola, killed in Paris on October 14, during an official and voluntarily apolitical rally,…
Dozens of people gathered on Friday in Fouquereuil (Pas-de-Calais) for a tribute to little Lola, killed in Paris on October 14, during an official and voluntarily apolitical rally, her parents firmly rejected any attempt to healing.
Residents, including some children, followed each other in silence, wet-eyed, sometimes with white roses, in front of a room in this town near Béthune, where Lola’s father is from, to sign one of four registers of consolation.
Without speaking, but a portrait of the little girl, adorned with many flowers, with a few words signed by her two older brothers, Jordan and Thibault, present in the place: “You were the sun of our life, you will be the star our nights.
Two young residents, Alyah and Chloé, ages 11 and 13, came to submit their drawings. “I wrote him a poem, my mother helped me a little,” says the youngest. Chloé wanted to represent “an angel, because it’s a bit like her parents’ angel, and the dove to represent her in the sky watching over her loved ones.”
“Leaving a note won’t bring anyone back. But for the parents to see that they are supported, it will give them energy,” hopes a neighbor, Laetitia Sibilleau, 45, accompanied by her two daughters dressed in black.
Tears stream down the cheeks of one of them, Kimberly, who knew him “a little.”
“Strict Privacy”
“Parents will keep this notebook for a long time, until the end of their lives,” Daniel Konieczko, former gendarmerie captain, imagines with a tight throat. “They will use these messages to remember their daughter and all the people who loved her.”
Furthermore, Eléonore Poulet, 28, says she is very touched “that so many people have moved” in this town of about 1,600 inhabitants.
The funeral of the little girl, killed at the age of 12 in tragic circumstances and then found in a trunk, will take place on Monday at 2.30pm in Lilles (Pas-de-Calais), the mother’s home town of her.
The ceremony, celebrated by the Bishop of Arras, will be open “to all who wish to pay their last respects”, but “interment in the cemetery will be in the strictest privacy”, the parents said on Thursday . a press release.
Gérald Darmanin will be present at the invitation of the family, said the circle of the Minister of the Interior, confirming the information from BFM TV.
The circumstances of Lola’s death and the profile of the suspect, of Algerian nationality and under the obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), have provoked strong criticism from the right and extreme right.
“Love of the Nation”
But the parents strongly oppose “any use of their child’s name and image for political purposes,” as their lawyer said in a statement on Friday.
The girl’s family “first of all needs the respect and love of the nation”, declared the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron on Friday, on the sidelines of a European summit in Brussels, considering that “all parents live in their flesh what they live Lola’s parents”.
Despite claims of recovery, hundreds of people gathered Thursday evening in Paris in the presence of Eric Zemmour. Some demonstrators carried signs showing the schoolgirl’s face.
RN, which was originally going to participate in the rally, finally organized a minute of silence at the same time in front of the National Assembly.
Another minute of silence was organized on Friday evening in Perpignan, at the initiative of the mayor RN Louis Aliot, gathering about forty people.
The RN MP for Pas-de-Calais, Caroline Parmentier, was present in Fouquereuil, but “as a citizen and a representative of the residents” of her constituency, she explained. She will go to the funeral.
On Friday, the labels – “Weak state, nationalist revenge” and “Justice for Lola” – were unveiled at a mosque in Pessac, near Bordeaux.
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The gathering in honor of Lola in Fouquereuil, where her father is from
• Damien DEPARNAY
People sign the condolence register during a final tribute to Lola, the murdered schoolgirl, on October 21, 2022 in Fouquereuil, Pas-de-Calais
• DENNIS CHARLET
People pay their last respects to Lola, the murdered schoolgirl, on October 21, 2022 in Fouquereuil, Pas-de-Calais.
• DENNIS CHARLET
People pay their last respects to Lola, the murdered schoolgirl, on October 21, 2022 in Fouquereuil, Pas-de-Calais.
• DENNIS CHARLET
Young Lola’s family “needs the respect and love of the nation” (Macron)
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RN mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot (d. 4) and MP Michelle Martines hold a minute’s silence in honor of Lola, the murdered schoolgirl, on October 21, 2022 in front of Perpignan town hall.
• RAYMOND ROIG
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