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A Plan to Reinvent Paris, and a Judicial System That Failed a Child

France's Haut-Commissariat proposes abolishing the Métropole du Grand Paris, while the murder of 11-year-old Lyhanna exposes a judiciary drowning in backlogs.

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Julien Hoez
Jun 07, 2026
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