Macron says murder and rape of Paris schoolgirl was 'extreme evil'

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French President Emmanuel Macron said the murder, rape and torture of a 12-year-old girl in Paris earlier this month, for which a 24-year-old Algerian woman has been arrested and placed in preventive detention, was an act of 'extreme evil',  while he also praised her family for being 'incredibly dignified and united'.

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Emmanuel Macron has called the murder of a 12-year-old girl an act of "extreme evil" in his first comments on a crime that has stunned France, reports BBC News.