Emmanuel Macron Reacts To Lola’s Murder For The First Time – The HuffPost

You cannot view this content because you have refused the cookies associated with content from third parties. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices. POLITICS – Usually, Emmanuel Macron dodges when a national question is put to him when he is abroad. However, on the sidelines of the European Council in Brussels this Friday, October 21, the Head of State has agreed to react to the Lola affair, which has taken a political turn in recent days. Not hiding his emotion, and marking several silences between his words, the president first recalled that it was up to the police and the courts to establish the facts. Before speaking in more detail on the subject. “What affects us all? This is the atrocity of this crime. And that’s also what he has, both unspeakable and absolute”, declared the President of the Republic, before adding: “I think that all parents experience in their flesh what Lola’s parents. A few days ago, the Élysée announced that the parents of the victim had been received by the head of state. “I am thinking above all of Lola’s parents, her brother and her half-brother, the disarray of this family which is incredibly dignified and united at this moment. And I think she needs first and foremost the respect and affection of the nation,” continued Emmanuel Macron. A speech which comes as the circumstances of Lola’s death and the profile of the suspect, of Algerian nationality, have aroused strong criticism on the right and the extreme right, and that the parents of the victim have indicated that they do not want “no political recovery”. See also on The HuffPost You cannot view this content because you have refused the cookies associated with content from third parties. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices.