Several hundred people gathered in southwestern France on Friday to bid farewell to an 11-year-old girl whose suspected murder sparked protests across the country and exposed failures in the country's judicial system.
The body of the girl, named as Lyhanna, was found last week after she went missing on May 29 in the southwestern town of Fleurance.
The suspect, a 41-year-old father of a school friend of the victim, had twice before been formally accused of raping a child, but investigations had been dropped or had stalled.
Around 60,000 people protested the killing across France this week, some demanding the resignation of Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin.
Mourners gathered at a local cemetery under the bright sun, with pallbearers carrying a small blue coffin with the child's body to its final resting place.
