Outcry over judicial missteps linked to missing girl prompts French govt reckoning

French Prime ⁠Minister Sebastien Lecornu summoned ​the interior minister, the justice minister and others on Friday over the ​case of a missing 11-year-old girl that has sparked an outcry over judicial missteps and missed opportunities to intervene, the government said. Lyhanna, currently identified only by ​her ‌first name, was reported missing in her small southern ⁠French town of Fleurance on May 29 after she left her middle school in the ‌afternoon. The suspect arrested in the case, the father of one ⁠of her classmates, had been the subject of several complaints of sexual assault against children.

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