PARIS. Efforts to fend off National Alarm and Republican opposition criticism were made yesterday French governmentafter the discovery of the dismembered body 12 year old girl in a plastic suitcase on Friday.

The murder immediately took a political turn when the right-wing opposition accused the government of failing to control crime and immigration after it emerged that an irregular immigrant from Algeria had been accused of raping, torturing and killing a child. On Tuesday, a few hours after Mr. French President Macron met with the parents of the 12-year-old victim at the Élysée Palace to declare his full support, the right-wing opposition accused the president of abandoning French families.

Zemur: “Falcocide”

For his part, far-right commentator Eric Zemour, defeated in parliamentary elections, spoke yesterday of “francocide” and compared Macron’s sensitivity to the killings of Algerian demonstrators in Paris in 1961 to his praise of an Algerian-born Frenchman. Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema, with the president silent about the killer’s nationality.

Defendant Dahia B. legally entered France in 2016 on a student visa. A few years ago, she went to the police with a statement about physical abuse of her husband. After a police check in August, Dahiya received an “order to leave French territory” and, since her criminal record was clean, she was released to prepare for her departure, which she did not, choosing to remain undocumented.

The incident was immediately exploited by deputies and supporters of Marine Le Pen, who were the first to leak the nationality of the prisoner, as well as the name of the victim, on Twitter. Zemur coined the neologism “gallocide”, which describes the murder of a Frenchman because of his nationality by an immigrant. For their part, the 12-year-old boy’s family fled to the Pas de Calais on the English Channel, trying to avoid the crowds of journalists.

Center-right Republican MPs spoke in the National Assembly yesterday about the “weakness of democracy” and the “criminal laxity in immigration policy.” Eric Poze said from the podium: “France cannot tolerate the criminal immunity of these executioners, whose only place is in a repatriation plane or in prison.” The National Alarm and Zemur’s party announced today a demonstration in memory of the 12-year-old victim, as well as against uncontrolled immigration.

The right-wing opposition quickly brought immigration and security issues back to the center of their complaints. “Enough of the ‘No Amalgams’ disgust. There is a clear link between extreme violence and immigration,” Republican Congressman Bruno Retaggio wrote.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne reacted sharply to Marine Le Pen’s statements from the National Assembly Hall. “A little decency,” exclaimed the prime minister, listening to Ms Le Pen, while government and left-wing deputies called their conservative colleagues hyenas and vultures.

The government has been hit politically by the murder of a 12-year-old boy and appears to be unable to address the problem of illegal immigration, especially since the 2017 terrorist attack in which an undocumented Tunisian immigrant killed two women in Marseille after being released from administrative detention. center.