The body of a 12-year-old girl was found in a trunk on Friday evening, October 14, near her building located in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, near the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont. Four people were taken into police custody as part of the investigation, the Paris prosecutor’s office told franceinfo. 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 a 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 building’s surveillance cameras show the teenager entering the building, but she then disappears, reports a source familiar with the matter to AFP. 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 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 sores on her throat. His body was concealed by tissue, sources familiar with the matter told AFP.
Four people were taken into custody
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”. The young woman visible on the CCTV images, born in 1998, was arrested on Saturday morning in Bois-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), learned franceinfo. Three people were also arrested on Friday evening, near the place where Lola’s body was discovered, according to a source familiar with the matter at AFP. The role of these four people remains to be determined, specifies the prosecution.
AFP adds that the body of the teenager must be autopsied on Saturday to identify the causes of her death. Several media, including BFMTV and The Parisianassert that “registrations” were found on his body. According to the news channel, tape and a box cutter were also found by investigators.