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The mother of late Maria Francesca (C) cries in front of the coffin of her baby during her funeral on January 5, 2015 at the Wissous cemetery. Christian Leclerc, the conservative mayor of Champlan, about 23 kms (14 miles) south of Paris, refused to let the family of the two-month-old bury their child at the municipal cemetery on grounds that it has “few available plots”. Prime Minister Manuel Valls took to Twitter to say: “Refusing a child a burial because of its roots is an insult to its memory, an insult to France.” AFP PHOTO JOEL SAGET