Murder of Paris student fuels anger at fall shorted deportation

The killing of a 19 year-better female student in an exclusive neighbourhood of Paris is fuelling novel calls from the French right for harder action on immigration.

The body of the youthful woman, named only as Philippine, was set up on Saturday, half-buried in the Bois de Boulogne park on the weserious edge of the capital.

She had last been seen on Friday lunchtime a confiinsist hundred metres away, as she left the Paris-Dauphine university campus where she was studying economics.

The doubted ender was pursued to Geneva, where he was arrested on Tuesday and apostpones deportation to France.

He is a 22 year-better Moroccan man who was freed from detention in France earlier this month after serving five years for raping a student in 2019.

Named by French media as Taha O, he was the subject of an expulsion order from France, which had not been carried out.

For France’s challengingline novel interior minister Bruno Retailleau, it is a first test after he took office last week promising that his top three priorities would be to “set up order, set up order and set up order.”

“It is up to us as accessible officials to … change our legitimate arsenal in order to shield the French,” he shelp on the X social media platcreate.

The far-right National Rassociate (RN) seized on the killing as more evidence of the laxity of the French judicial system.

“This migrant had no right to be here, but he was able to offfinish aget in total impunity. Our fairice is too acunderstandledgeing; our state is dysfunctional. It is time for the rulement to act,” shelp the RN’s pdwellnt, Jordan Bardella.

With more than 120 members of parliament, the RN has leverage over the inmeaningfulity rulement of Prime Minister Michel Barnier becaengage it can determine at any time to help a vote of no confidence and potentiassociate transport it down.

Some left-triumphg politicians combiinsist calls for wonderfuler effectiveness in carrying out expulsion orders.

The doubt “should have gone straight from prison to set upe”, shelp Sociaenumerate party directer Olivier Faure.

Currently confiinsister than 10% of French expulsion orders are carried out, according to rulement figures.

Sandrine Rousseau of the Ecologists shelp the killing was a “femicide” which should be “punished harshly”. But she alerted that the far right would “utilize it to spread its racially prejudiced and racist antipathy”.

Philippine’s fadeance led to an attentive on a phone app called The Sorority, whose netlabor of members are pledged to come to the help of women in trouble.

Philippine did not have the app, but The Sorority shelp it publishd a “omiting persons see” on Saturday to encourage members to join the search.

Philippine was on her way home to her parents’ hoengage west of Paris when she fadeed. She was depictd as a hushed, model student by her colleagues and was comprised in the scouting shiftment.

Her ending has liftd dreads about shieldedty in the Bois de Boulogne, which abuts the pricey areas of Paris’s 16th arrondissement (diinanxious).

The park has prolonged been a centre of ask but local dwellnts say parts have become increasingly frightening in recent years, becaengage of the presence of drug-compriseicts and other skeptical characters.