Could Jérôme Barella have been put out of harm’s way before the disappearance of Lyhanna, this 11-year-old schoolgirl found dead and raped on June 4, 2026 in Gers? The administrative report, made public Monday June 22 by the government, does not directly answer this sensitive question. But its conclusions clearly show that the justice system and the gendarmerie, after having done their job rather well at the start, then completely underestimated the background and dangerousness of this 41-year-old man against whom two complaints of rape of a minor had been filed in the past.
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