“We heard them laughing”: Lola and her family in happy times

The funeral of the “ch’tiote” will be celebrated Monday in the collegiate church of Lillers (Pas-de-Calais), 80 km away. “We are all going to go to the funeral by carpooling”, breathes Claude, 72, ex-farmer baptized “Boar” because he comes from the Ardennes. “Lola, it’s as if she were our kid”, continues Roger, a fellow bowler who played in pairs with the teenager during a competition a few months ago, at the Orée du Bois campsite in Rang-du-Fliers (Pas-de-Calais).