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Repeated Errors in Handling of Rape Case Linked to French Girl's Death: Report

An administrative investigation ordered after the death of 11 year-old Lyhanna in southern France has revealed serious failings in how a previous rape complaint against the main suspect was handled. The case has brought the French judicial and police system under stark scrutiny, especially regarding cases of child abuse.

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The preliminary report of the administrative investigation opened after the death of Lyhanna, the 11-year-old girl murdered in southwestern France and indignified France, revealed on Monday a chain of judicial and police errors that allowed the main suspect of the crime to remain at large and previously reported for rape of another minor. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu admitted on Monday that the report establishes a reality "of extreme…

·Madrid, Spain
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Three weeks after the deadly abduction of Lyhanna, the French Government has admitted serious judgments of the Justice and Police that released Jérôme Barella, the main suspect in the murder of that 11-year-old girl, in southern France. The Ministry of Justice published Monday afternoon the first version of a report detailing those errors by prosecutors and agents. “There was a waste of time (...) and there was no necessary follow-up” of a previ…

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The document drawn up by members of the General Inspectorate of Justice and that of the National Gendarmerie lists successive errors and a lack of procedural follow-up by the Public Prosecutor ' s Office of Auch and the Gendarmerie of Lectoure.

·Paris, France
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The Ministries of Justice and the Interior had ordered a "operational inspection".The delays in the reaction of the justice system despite the background of the respondent had caused very wide waves of emotion and political controversy in FranceThe two heads of the General Inspectorate of Justice and the Gendarmerie presented this Monday at the mid-day the "pre-report" which they gave to the government on the alleged shortcomings which led to th…

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Liberation broke the news in Paris, France on Sunday, June 21, 2026.
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