“Lead the fight against femicide”
“This heinous crime upsets us and reinforces our duty to protect French women,” he stressed in a press release, hours before the young woman’s funeral. “Together with all my colleagues in government, we will accelerate the implementation of emergency measures to lead the fight against femicide.”
The body of Filipino, a 19-year-old student at the University of Paris-Dauphine, was found buried in the Bois de Boulogne, west of Paris, during a search on September 21. A 22-year-old Moroccan citizen, previously convicted of rape and obliged to leave the territory (OQTF), was arrested on Tuesday in Switzerland. A judicial investigation into the rape and murder was opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Following this murder, several political leaders, from both the right and left, questioned the “criminal and administrative chain” in the case, judging that the suspect should not have been released before obtaining permission for expulsion to Morocco.
