Mother sues Justice Minister before the Court of Justice of the Republic following her daughter's murder
After her daughter's complaint went unanswered for months, the mother of an eleven-year-old girl filed a complaint against French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin before the Court of Justice of the Republic.
Mother sues Justice Minister before the Court of Justice of the Republic following her daughter's murder
A mother has filed a complaint with the Court of Justice of the Republic against French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin. She accuses him of deliberately endangering another person's life and failing to assist a person in danger. This action follows the death of her eleven-year-old daughter, who was raped and killed in June 2026.
As early as August 2025, the woman had filed a complaint against a man for the alleged rape of her daughter, then ten years old. Investigators however neither arrested nor questioned the suspect, according to the Kurier. Months later, this same man is now suspected of having raped and murdered little Lyhanna, eleven years old. Her body was discovered in early June.
The complaint was filed on Monday before the Court of Justice of the Republic. This special court is authorised to prosecute and impose criminal sentences on government members. The mother's lawyer, Pierre Debuisson, told dpa that the minister was accused of having done nothing during his years in office to remedy structural malfunctions in combating child abuse.
A working group mandated by several ministries revealed during its investigation serious errors on the part of the competent prosecutor's office and gendarmerie: extremely long processing times, a lack of prioritisation of the case, and insufficient oversight of the procedure. This led to disciplinary proceedings against a deputy prosecutor.
Darmanin refuses to resign and contests having committed serious faults. Yet the authorities responsible for prosecutions and associations have been alerting for years to the lack of resources and structural malfunctions. "There were warnings," the lawyer told French media.
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