The murder of an 11-year-old French schoolgirl has sparked outrage at the country's judicial system after it emerged that authorities had failed to fully investigate the suspected killer about previous allegations of child sexual abuse.
The girl, named in the press only as Lyhanna, went missing on 29 May near the southwestern town of Fleurance after she was last seen getting into a man's car.
After days of searching, investigators found the body of a child wearing the same clothes as Lyhanna in an abandoned silo in the nearby village of Puycasquier on 4 June.
A 41-year-old father of two, whose daughter was a school friend of Lyhanna, has been arrested as the main suspect. He had been named in four separate cases involving young girls in recent years, but they were never properly investigated, leading to public outcry and President Emmanuel Macron to blast the "unacceptable" lapses in the justice system.
The news has prompted criticism of under-investment and a lack of resources in the French judiciary.
