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Macron urges France to unite against 'extreme evil' of 12-year-old's murder

FILE PHOTO: Flowers with a hand-written message which reads "Rest in peace little Lola, you will stay in my heart forever" are displayed outside the building where a 12-year-old schoolgirl Lola lived, who was brutally killed and whose body was stuffed in a trunk in the 19th district in Paris, France, October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo

France should unite in solidarity with the parents of a 12-year-old girl whose battered body was found last week in a suitcase outside her Paris home, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, calling her murder an act of "extreme evil".

In his first public comments on the death of the girl, named Lola, Macron said the unspeakable atrocity that the crime represented was what has shocked the country most.

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