PARIS (AP) — A firestorm of recrimination raged in France on Friday over the feared killing of a missing 11-year-old girl, with the judicial system accused of having failed to act on previous allegations of rape against the suspect in custody.The search in southwest France for the girl identified by police as Lyhanna has gripped national and, increasingly, political attention since she went missing after school on May 29.Police notices said she’d been wearing a black-and-white striped top, black shorts and yellow socks with branding from the Japanese manga series “One Piece.”After six days of searching by police and volunteers, authorities announced that a child’s body dressed in “similar clothes” was found Thursday in an out-of-the-way location on a farm in the southwestern Gers region. An autopsy has been ordered. President Emmanuel Macron joined the outpouring of dismay, saying the case had revealed cracks in the system and that he was “shocked.” He spoke on a visit Friday to Montenegro, a departure from his habit of generally not commenting on domestic issues from overseas.
“Things didn’t happen as they should have done. That is clear. And so it is unacceptable,” Macron said. “We cannot look her family in the face and say everything went well.”
