• A French government official said that a 24-year-old woman accused of the horrific murder and rape of a 12-year-old girl whose body was found in a plastic box in Paris last week had been living in the country illegally for several years.
• “The suspect in this barbaric act should not have been in our country,” Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right National Rally party, said Tuesday during a heated National Assembly session, demanding that Macron’s government put a stop to “uncontrolled immigration.”
• French government spokesman Olivier Veran confirmed Wednesday that the suspect lived in the country illegally for three years.

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