[4] After her lunch at the Paris Dauphine University canteen on 20 September, Philippine Le Noir de Carlan was supposed to go to her parents' house in Yvelines.

[11] On 23 September, the Paris Dauphine University community gathered in large numbers to pay tribute to Philippine Le Noir de Carlan, by observing a minute of silence in her memory.

[12] The Hanane Mansouri, a member of parliament belonging to the right-wing Union of the Right for the Republic party, organised a rally in tribute to Philippine in front of the Vienne courthouse in Isère.

[14] Coverage of the event resulted in three people, citizens or members of the New Popular Front, being targeted with online harassment, each of whom filed a complaint at the police station.

Without a genetic fingerprint at the crime scene, the Criminal Brigade [fr] turned to other leads and managed to isolate several decisive time sequences by analysing telephone traffic in the Bois de Boulogne district and Seine-Saint-Denis, where a cash withdrawal from an ATM in Montreuil was made with the victim's bank card.

[22][23] France made the request on 9 October 2024 to the Swiss authorities for the extradition of the suspect on suspicion of the murder of Philippine Le Noir de Carlan in Paris on 20 September.

If these conditions are met, extradition times can vary, according to Maître Philippe Fontana, a lawyer at the Paris bar [fr]: "Either there is a classic procedure and given the media coverage of the case, it will only take a few weeks.

[29] According to information transmitted by the BFMTV police service, the suspect was born in 2002 in Oujda, Morocco, and entered France in June 2019 via Spain at the age of 17 with a tourist visa.

[31] Questions over whether the murder of Philippine Le Noir de Carlan was avoidable, and whether dysfunctions in the legal system and administrative state led to the suspect's release and allowed the crime to take place, have been raised by many politicians and citizens.

In an interview with Le Figaro on 2 October 2024, Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau stated that there were clearly dysfunctions, which are not new and which are recurring and that he asked the general inspection of his administration to take stock of this issue.

[33] Others such as Béatrice Brugère, general secretary of the Unité Magistrats [fr] union, believe that in France, it is impossible to expel a foreign minor "even if he or she has committed crimes".

[36][37] On 30 September 2024, lawyer Cécile De Oliveira explained on France Info that the law provides access to psychiatric and sometimes psychological care for prisoners both before and after their trial.

[42] Olivier Faure noted in September 2024, on BFM TV: "When we have someone who is in detention, who...we can think of as a threat to French society, we should not have to release him before we even have the assurance that he will be able to leave...

He specified that "there were clear directives for the Moroccan authorities to work with France and Spain to repatriate unaccompanied minors," believing that "the obstacles did not come from Morocco but from the procedures of these countries."

Provisions described as "absurd" and which "facilitate the release of illegal immigrants" by Morgane Daury-Fauveau, professor of private law, general secretary of the UNI and president of the Center for University Studies and Research (Ceru).

A place of prostitution, particularly that of sex workers from South America, this space attracts a marginalized population, generating delinquency that mixes theft, assault and drug use.

The most high-profile recent criminal cases are the death of Vanesa Campos [fr] in August 2018 and the arrest in April 2024 of "El Indiano" suspected of a hundred rapes of prostitutes.

[51] Jérémy Redler, mayor (LR) of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, thus called for the "creation of a dedicated and armed municipal police brigade, to deal with the dangerousness of the individuals who may be there".

The day after the tragedy, the Bois de Boulogne was cordoned off until 8:30 p.m. by uniformed units from the Public Order and Traffic Department with the support of the Paris intervention company and "hunters" from the night-time anti-crime brigade (Bac-N) tasked with carrying out "dynamic security" of the area until 6 a.m.

The district staff, for their part, are now asked to ensure a "constant presence during the day by means of uniformed crews (Territorial Contact Brigade) in the Muette-Dauphine sector as well as on the contiguous edge of the Bois de Boulogne".

[52] According to a report brought to the attention of Le Figaro, attacks on physical integrity in the Bois de Boulogne fell by 28.3% over the first eight months of 2024 compared to the same period of the previous year.

On 26 September 2024, Emmanuel Macron, on a trip to Montreal in Quebec, Canada, expressed "the emotion of the entire nation" while denouncing a "heinous and atrocious crime" , and believes that it is necessary "to better protect the French every day".

The president of the Senate Gérard Larcher paid tribute the same day by declaring "I believe that the national representation must draw all the consequences from such a tragedy so that never again is a woman's life stolen in this way".

[58] Accustomed to these recuperations, the spheres of the far-right identity are taking up the term "francocide", invented by the polemicist Éric Zemmour, and are organizing poster collages, using the same methods as after the murder of Lola Daviet, aged 12, killed in 2023 by an Algerian national who was also required to leave French territory.

Four days after Philippine's death, the new minister of the interior, Bruno Retailleau, said on the social network X that he was determined to "develop our legal arsenal to protect the French", echoing his famous diatribe "Restore order" delivered three times when he took office.

[43] At the end of September, the deputies of Laurent Wauquiez's Republican Right group tabled a bill to extend the detention period for illegal aliens deemed dangerous.

[58] In a vitriolic column, historian Christelle Taraud denounces the anti-immigration instrumentalization of this murder and that, if Philippine must be reduced to an identity, it is certainly not to her social status, her religious confession or even her skin colour, as the extreme right expects, but rather to her quality as a woman.

[63] The left-wing Syndicat de la Magistrature also states that these issues must "be considered through the capacity of society as a whole to prevent femicides and repeat offences, regardless of the nationality of the persons convicted".

[64] In a column on September 28, editorialist Philippe Bernard nevertheless considers that for such tragedies not to happen again, it would be appropriate "for a part of the left to stop lazily reducing the exasperation of the French in such cases to "racism" or to the result of media-political manipulation", a discourse that is barely audible in the face of the speech of the minister of the interior, inspired by the extreme right.

Various Arab media outlets note that this case once again crystallizes the issue of "obligations to leave French territory" (OQTF) in relations between France and the Maghreb region.