How Lyhanna’s murder case is shedding light on child abuse in France
The rape and murder of 11-year-old Lyhanna exposed years of alleged police and judicial failures in France.
The rape and murder of 11-year-old Lyhanna exposed years of alleged police and judicial failures in France.
The rape and murder of 11-year-old Lyhanna has sparked outrage in France.
The shockwave following the rape and murder of 11-year-old Lyhanna in May has continued to echo across France, with tens of thousands of people across the country marching on Saturday in support of what organisers call a comprehensive law against sexual violence.
Het vermoorde 11-jarige meisje Lyhanna uit Frankrijk werd vastgebonden, verkracht en vermoord, maar wat haar exact fataal werd, blijft voorlopig onduidelijk. Dat blijkt uit de autopsie op het lichaam van het meisje.
The French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced on Tuesday that a "comprehensive" bill against gender-based and sexual violence will be examined by MPs in the autumn. It follows the death of 11 year-old Lyhanna shook the country and led to accusations of serious systemic failures in the justice system.
Het vermoorde Franse meisje Lyhanna (11) blijkt ook te zijn verkracht, zo is duidelijk geworden na de autopsie. Volgens de Franse nieuwszender BFMTV werd het meisje met tape gekneveld en vertoonde het lichaam kneuzingen. De doodsoorzaak is voorlopig nog onbekend.
A funeral has been held for 11-year-old Lyhanna. Her murder has sparked a national debate over child sexual abuse and failures of the French judicial system. The suspect, Jérôme Barella, had been previously accused. It’s now been discovered that child protection authorities in the US flagged his suspicious online…
In Frankrijk is het 11-jarige meisje Lyhanna begraven dat twee weken geleden vermoord werd teruggevonden in een graansilo. De moord op Lyhanna veroorzaakte een golf van afschuw in Frankrijk, vooral nadat bekend was geworden dat tegen de verdachte, de 41-jarige Jérôme Barella, al eerder aangifte was gedaan vanwege…
Flags flew at half-mast at the town hall in Fleurance in southwestern France on Friday as hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Lyhanna, an 11-year-old schoolgirl whose suspected murder sparked national outrage over the exposed failures in the judicial system.
The prime suspect in the killing of Lyhanna, 11, was reported to police nine months prior but never questioned.
The death of 11-year-old Lyhanna, whose body was found in an abandoned silo, has shocked France and galvanized a population who say that her death was entirely preventible. They blame the slow justice system which failed to bring the main suspect into custody even though he was the subject of several reports of sexual…