The prosecutor in Agen, in southern France, told reporters on Saturday that when police went to arrest the man at his flat in the southern city of Marmande, he said: “I know why you are here” and confessed.
The authorities said that the man had been sentenced to a suspended 15-day jail term for sexual assault of another minor in 2006, when the suspect was only 15 years old.
Dante Rinaudo, The mayor of Tonneins told reporters Monday that the girl’s parents want to bury their daughter in Granada, Spain, where the family had lived for several years before moving to France.
Rinaudo said he had launched an online fundraiser to support the family and would organize a march for the victim on Friday.
The murder comes just weeks after France was rocked by the brutal murder of a 12-year-old girl named Lola, whose battered body was found in a suitcase outside her Paris home.
The main suspect in that case, a 24-year-old woman, has been accused of murder, rape and acts of torture.
Lola’s murder became a source of political tension, with opposition parties taking advantage of the suspect’s profile – an illegal immigrant – to call for tougher policies.
In both cases, the far-right opposition has criticized political and judicial authorities for being soft on crime and not doing enough to keep dangerous individuals off the streets. (
Source: Ambito
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