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  • Nearly 500 people gathered at the Sallaumines stadium in Pas-de-Calais to pay "a last tribute to Laura".
  • The 16-year-old high school student was stabbed to death in yet unknown circumstances.
  • The investigation was handed over to the federal police.

" Never again ". Nearly 500 people gathered on Saturday at the Sallaumines stadium in Pas-de-Calais to pay "a last tribute to Laura", a 16-year-old girl killed on January 30 with a knife, then that she was coming back from high school.

A minute of silence was observed at the start of the rally, before a family friend spoke to the assembled crowd despite the rain.

Calogero's song

"You, Laura, you were a young girl with an extraordinary joie de vivre, the happy sister of a family of five children," said Ludovic Hulot. You remain in our hearts forever, we love you ”.

Sallaumines: a tribute to Laura pic.twitter.com/RYj9OVGWLy

- BFM Grand Lille (@BFMGrandLille) February 8, 2020

Calogero's song “One day in the wrong place” then resounded under the covered area of ​​the stadium grandstand, with some people singing the words “Never again”. The rally ended with a release of balloons.

"I am very touched by the presence, support and donations of all these people," said Audrey Bernard, Laura's mother, to AFP. “Thanks to them, my daughter left worthy of a princess. There is still a lot of pain, sadness, especially rage. I don't want it to start again. This is why we are all mobilized ”.

Pupil in first in a vocational high school

"It is the whole city that comes to support parents in this terrible tragedy," said Christian Pedowski, communist mayor of this town of nearly 10,000 inhabitants, in the former Lens basin. "Today, we have only one expectation, it is that the culprit (s) will be arrested as soon as possible".

The girl was a first student in a vocational high school in Sallaumines. His body had two stab wounds, one in the chest and the other in the throat. The investigation was entrusted to the Lille judicial police.

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