Dossier
child sexual violence
Coverage of child sexual violence in the Nexus archive.
- French government seeks to defuse crisis after girl's killing exposes judicial failings
The French government faces a political crisis over judicial failures in handling child sexual violence cases after an 11-year-old girl named Lyhanna was killed in Fleurance. Protests erupted nationwide as prosecutors revealed the main suspect had been accused of raping a minor in August 2025 but was not questioned until his arrest over Lyhanna's disappearance.