The body of a 12-year-old girl was found in a trunk on Friday evening near her building in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, near the Buttes-Chaumont park. A woman was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on Monday, October 17, as part of the judicial investigation opened for murder of a minor under the age of 15 in connection with a rape committed with acts of torture and barbarity, rape on a 15-year-old minor with acts of torture and barbarism and concealment of a corpse. Here is what we know about this case.
His parents had reported him missing on Friday.
The parents of 12-year-old Lola were concerned when they did not see her come home from college on Friday afternoon. They then reported her missing to the police and shared photos of their daughter on Facebook, according to information obtained by franceinfo.
LOne of these photos shows the teenager with long blond hair, adds AFP, who was able to consult the post. In another photo, apparently taken from CCTV footage, an unknown young woman is seen entering Lola’s building. The message accompanying these photos states: “Abduction alert, our daughter Lola was last seen at 3:20 p.m. in the company of an unknown girl in our residence.”
The surveillance cameras of the building, consulted by the father of Lola (caretaker of the residence in question) clearly show the teenager entering the building with an unknown woman around 3 p.m. Friday, then this same woman coming out of the building around 5 p.m. with heavy luggage and without Lola. The unknown young woman who can also be seen on the CCTV images later asked for help to move a large trunk into a car, another source familiar with the matter told franceinfo.
His body was discovered in the evening by a homeless man.
The discovery of Lola’s body took place later in the evening, franceinfo learned from the prosecution, confirming information from the independent journalist Clément Lanot. A 42-year-old homeless man contacted the police around 11 p.m., after finding her in an opaque plastic trunk, in the courtyard of the residence where the victim lived.
The teenager was found tied up and curled up, with several sores on her throat. The autopsy carried out on Saturday made it possible to determine that she died of asphyxiation, the Paris prosecutor’s office told franceinfo.
Two people charged
The criminal brigade of the judicial police was seized of the investigation opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office for “murder of a minor under the age of 15”. A 24-year-old woman, seen in CCTV footage, was arrested on Saturday morning in Bois-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) and placed in police custody, franceinfo learned from the prosecution.
Three people were also arrested on Friday evening, including the sister of this young woman. Two other people were also taken into custody on Saturday, early evening, learned France Télévisions. In addition to the two sisters, the other two in custody are men who have no family ties between them, nor with the sisters.
The police custody ended Monday morning at 6 a.m. In the aftermath, the main suspect and a 43-year-old man, suspected of having hosted her, were presented to an investigating judge, the Paris prosecutor’s office told franceinfo. The 24-year-old woman was charged for murder of a minor under the age of 15 in connection with a rape committed with acts of torture and barbarism, rape of a minor under the age of 15 with acts of torture and barbarism and concealment of a corpse. The man was indicted for “concealment of a corpse” and placed under judicial control, franceinfo learned from a judicial source.
A judicial investigation was also opened for murder of a minor under the age of 15 in connection with a rape committed with acts of torture and barbarism, rape of a minor aged 15 with acts of torture and barbarism and concealment of a corpse, specified the judicial source.