POLITICS – Usually, Emmanuel Macron dodges when a national question is put to him when he is abroad. However, on the sidelines of the European Council in Brussels this Friday, October 21, the Head of State agreed to react to the Lola casewhich has taken in recent days a political turning point.
Not hiding his emotion, and marking several silences between his words, the president first recalled that it was up to the police and the courts to establish the facts. Before speaking in more detail on the subject.
“What affects us all? This is the atrocity of this crime. And that’s also what it has, both unspeakable and absolute. declared the President of the Republic, before adding: ” I think that all parents experience in their flesh what Lola’s parents experience”.
A few days ago, the Élysée let it be known that the parents of the victim had been received by the Head of State. ” I am thinking above all of Lola’s parents, her brother and her half-brother, of the disarray of this family which is incredibly dignified and united at this time. And I think she needs first and foremost the respect and affection of the nation.” continued Emmanuel Macron.
A speech which comes as the circumstances of Lola’s death and the profile of the suspect, of Algerian nationality, have aroused strong criticism on the right and the far right, and that the parents of the victim have indicated that they do not want to “no political recovery”.
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