Lyhanna: lawyer for murdered French girl’s family calls for more justice system funding

Political row emerges over state’s failure to tackle sexual violence against children as people protest across France A lawyer for the family of an 11-year-old girl whose disappearance and murder sparked protests across France has called for more funding for the struggling justice system, amid a political row over the French state’s failure to tackle sexual violence against children. “Frankly, if the justice system had more resources, this tragedy and all the others wouldn’t have happened,” s...

By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris