The main suspect, a 24-year-old woman, was indicted as part of an open judicial investigation for the murder and rape with acts of torture and barbarity of Lola, a 12-year-old schoolgirl, found dead on Friday October 14. in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, learned franceinfo from his lawyer Me Alexandre Silva on Monday.
The main suspect was presented to an investigating judge on Monday, after spending two days in police custody. She had been arrested on Saturday in Bois-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) after being identified thanks to CCTV images where she appeared with the teenager on Friday afternoon, after leaving college and before her disappearance. She was also seen by local residents, later in the afternoon, pushing a large plastic trunk.
A trunk finally deposited in the evening in front of the residence where Lola and her parents lived, building caretakers, and in which a homeless man discovered, around 11 p.m., the body of the child, tied up and curled up. According to information from franceinfo, he had several throat wounds. “A zero and a 1 were written in red under each foot of the victim”, specifies this Monday in a press release the Paris prosecutor’s office. The autopsy carried out on Saturday made it possible to determine that Lola had died of asphyxiation, the Paris prosecutor’s office had then indicated.
Interviewed by the authorities, the main suspect oscillated “between recognition and contestation of the facts”learned franceinfo on Monday, in a press release from the Paris public prosecutor. “She allegedly dragged the victim to her sister’s apartment, living in the same building as the child”, details the press release. The main suspect would have imposed on the victim “to take a shower before committing sexual assaults and other violence on her resulting in death”. She would then “hiding the body in the crate”.
On the other hand, the young woman of 24 years “did not mention to the investigators the slightest exchange about the sale of organs that she would have had with one of the witnesses”adds the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Three other people were arrested and taken into custody, including the suspect’s 21-year-old sister and two unrelated men. One of these men, aged 43, was also presented to a judge on Monday. He is an old acquaintance of the main suspect. While in police custody, he admitted having transported the latter “at his request, as well as two suitcases and the plastic crate in his company vehicle, from Paris to his home in Asnières-sur-Seine”. He also states that he received the suspect there with the suitcases and the crate.