Fury in France as student, 19, is murdered in exclusive Paris suburb 'by 22-year-old Moroccan rapist who had been released from jail and was awaiting deportation'
The body of the 19-year-old woman, named only as Philippine, was found buried in the Bois de Boulogne park in an affluent area in the west of Paris on Saturday.
Philippine was studying economics at Paris-Dauphine university and was last seen a few hundred metres away from campus around midday on Friday.
The suspect, named by French media as Taha O., is a 22-year-old from Morocco who had been due to be expelled from France after serving five years in jail for raping a student in 2019, Le Monde newspaper and BFM TV said.
On June 20, he had reportedly been sent straight from jail to a detention centre for illegal migrants pending his expulsion, but a judge set him free on September 3, as the expulsion process was getting bogged down in administrative delays.
He was supposed to check in regularly with police and stay on at a specific hotel, French media said, but three days after his release, when the paperwork to expel him was completed, Taha O. had disappeared.
The conservative National Rally (RN) has seized on Philippine's murder to push for a toughening of immigration laws.
The body of the 19-year-old woman, named only as Philippine (pictured), was found buried in the Bois de Boulogne park in an affluent area in the west of Paris on Saturday
Marine Le Pen's party has said in past weeks it reserved the right to withdraw its tacit backing for Prime Minister Michel Barnier's cabinet if its concerns over immigration and other issues were not addressed, saying the fate of the government was in its hands.
'It's time for this government to act: our compatriots are angry and will not be content with just words,' RN chief Jordan Bardella said, accusing the state of being too soft on security and immigration after French media said the suspect was a 22-year-old migrant with a criminal record.
He added: 'This migrant had no right to be here, but he was able to offend again in total impunity. Our justice is too lenient; our state is dysfunctional. It is time for the government to act.'
'Philippine's life was stolen from her by a Moroccan migrant targeted by an OQTF (obligation to leave France),' he said on social media platform X on Tuesday evening.
Marine Le Pen's RN party acquired kingmaker status by signalling support for a new coalition between centrists and conservatives, after a July election in which President Emmanuel Macron's centrist government suffered heavy losses.
On Wednesday morning, new Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said: 'If we need to change the rules, let's change them.'
'Faced with such a tragedy, preceded by many others, we cannot just condemn it or be outraged,' Retailleau said in a statement. 'It's up to us, public officials, to [...] update our legislation, to protect the French.'
Retailleau, from the conservative Republicans party, had already signaled earlier this week that France was likely to see much tougher immigration and security measures.
The park where her body was found, the Bois de Boulogne
Geneva Police officers and Railway Police officers are seen at an the entrance to Geneva Cornavin train station, in Geneva, on September 24, 2024 as Taha O. was arrested in the city
France deports more non-EU citizens than any other European Union nation, official Eurostat data shows.
Philippine disappeared while on her way home to her parents' house in western Paris. Her colleagues have described her as a quiet, model student to local media
But it issues so many expulsion orders - two to five times more than Germany in each quarter over the past two years - that its ratio of enforced expulsion orders is low at less than 10 per cent.
In the first quarter of 2024, France ordered the expulsion of 34,190 non-EU citizens, or nearly a third of all expulsions ordered across the EU. It expelled 4,205 people in the same period.
Bureaucracy, diplomatic rows and a reluctance by some countries to accept the return of people holding criminal convictions are among the reasons why far fewer expulsions than are ordered are actually enforced.
Philippine disappeared while on her way home to her parents' house in western Paris. Her colleagues have described her as a quiet, model student to local media.
Her killer, Taha O., was tracked down and arrested in Geneva on Tuesday, and is due to be returned to France.
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France is set to follow Germany and expel illegal migrants who 'break in' to the country: Minister calls for coalition of like-minded EU countries to demand tighter immigration rules
France is set to follow Germany and expel illegal migrants who have 'broken in' to the country, its new interior minister said as he called for a coalition of like-minded EU countries to demand tighter immigration rules.
Bruno Retailleau's calls for a harsher line on asylum claims, violence against police, prison sentences, radical Islam and drug trafficking underline the sway of Marine Le Pen's conservative National Rally (RN) party on the newly installed government.
Retailleau, 63, a veteran of the mainstream conservative Republicans (LR) party and a longtime skeptic of illegal immigration, told the Le Figaro daily that he would unveil new measures within weeks, and that France 'must not refrain from strengthening our legislative arsenal'.
'My objective is to put a stop to illegal entries and to increase exits, particularly for illegal immigrants, because one should not stay in France when one has broken in,' he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
Echoing comments by RN officials, Retailleau told CNews on Tuesday that France and other like-minded European nations should join forces to compel the European Union to toughen its immigration laws.
Retailleau's comments come after the deputy chairman for the German federal police union said that tighter Border controls in Germany were succeeding in fighting the migration crime crisis.
Migrants prepare to attempt a crossing of the English Channel near the beach of Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France
Manuel Ostermann told Germany's Focus magazine: 'We are witnessing the efficiency of the federal police and, above all, we are once again seeing confirmation of the necessity of border controls.'
He added: 'It has long been statistically substantiated and more and more people in Germany are experiencing it every day: the migration crisis is increasingly becoming a crime crisis and is leading parts of our infrastructure close to collapse.'
He said the migration crisis had now grown into a crime crisis, putting major strains on the country's infrastructure and leading to widespread public safety concerns.
French minister Retailleau said neighbouring Germany's decision to impose temporary border checks, suspending decades of largely free movement within the EU's Schengen travel zone, underscored how European views on immigration were shifting rightward.
'I think we must forge an alliance with the major European countries that want to toughen up, and have already toughened up, their legislative arsenal to change European rules.'
Retailleau added that some of the EU's immigration laws had become 'totally obsolete (and) no longer correspond to the threats of the moment'.
Speaking to TF1 television, Retailleau said he would summon prefects - regional representatives of the interior ministry - from the 10 regions with the highest immigration numbers to tell them 'to expel more, to regularize less'.
Border controls are working wonders for Germany's national security, the country's federal police union has announced, massively helping fight criminals, terrorists, and unwanted entries
Police officers guard on the Wimereux beach, France, which is popular for migrants hoping to cross the English Channel to reach Britain
He also pledged to speak with North African nations about stopping more undocumented migrants from heading to France.
Asked by CNews if he relied on the political goodwill of the RN, Retailleau said: 'I depend on the goodwill of the French.'
But he acknowledged that voters had sent a clear message in the first round of this summer's legislative election, in which the RN came first with around a third of votes.
'The French, too, have given us their roadmap. We must listen to the message they gave us ... They want more security and less immigration. I will apply this roadmap.'
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