Overview

• In anniversary interviews, Loïc and Blandine de Carlan paid tribute to their 19-year-old daughter and thanked those who supported the family.
• They condemned the Constitutional Council’s August annulment of the Marleix bill that sought longer administrative retention for foreigners deemed dangerous.
• The family highlighted alleged failures that preceded the crime, noting a judge authorized the suspect’s release from administrative detention in early September 2024.
• Investigators say Philippine disappeared on 20 September 2024 in the Bois de Boulogne and was found buried the next day, with an autopsy concluding death by strangulation.
• Principal suspect Taha O., a Moroccan previously convicted of a 2019 rape, was arrested in Switzerland, extradited to France, and is mis en examen for murder, rape, theft and fraud in legal recidivism.