Body of 12-year-old girl found in plastic box in a case that has shocked France - CNN

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“She’s wearing achromatic jeans,” the girl’s parent posted connected Facebook, “a achromatic hoodie and her grey backpack.” “Help america to find her,” she pleaded.

Beneath Delphine Daviet’s message, 2 pictures completed the post. In one, a young girl, 12-year-old Lola, smiles astatine the camera, successful the other, a pixelated snapshot from information camera footage shows a pistillate successful a doorway.

In a lawsuit that has gripped France, Lola’s assemblage was recovered mutilated and stuffed into a integrative box, conscionable hours aft her parent posted this connection connected October 14. Caught connected camera, her parent said, is the pistillate with Lola that past clip she was seen alive, successful the gathering wherever the household lives.

The 2 were spotted connected information camera astatine 3:15 p.m. connected Friday, conscionable minutes aft Lola had near school, entering the gathering wherever she lived, according to connection from the Paris constabulary prosecutor.

Around 5 p.m., the pistillate near the building, alone, carrying dense luggage. Three hours later, Lola’s begetter sounded the alarm, alerting officers to Lola’s disappearance, the connection added.

A small aft 11 p.m., Lola’s assemblage was recovered successful a wheeled integrative box, abandoned successful the communal areas extracurricular the family’s building, wherever Lola’s begetter works arsenic concierge, according to the statement.

On Monday, French authorities opened an authoritative judicial probe into the lawsuit into the charges of “murder of a insignificant nether the property of 15, accompanied by rape of a minor, torture oregon acts of savagery; rape of a insignificant with torture oregon acts of savagery; and concealment of a corpse,” the connection said.

An autopsy of Lola revealed that she died of cardiorespiratory nonaccomplishment with signs of asphyxiation and cervical compression, according to the statement. She had aggregate different injuries, “notably to her face, backmost and with ample cuts to her neck, which did not play a relation her decease according to the coroner’s conclusions of her origin of death,” the constabulary connection said. There was nary motion of injuries from intersexual trauma, the constabulary authoritative said, and a zero and 1 were written successful reddish nether each of the young victim’s feet.

Police detained the main fishy successful the case, a 24-year-old pistillate who has not been named, a small earlier 8 a.m. Saturday, the time aft Lola was killed, successful the northwest suburbs of Paris, according to Paris constabulary prosecutor.

CNN has reached retired to the suspect’s lawyer.

Under interrogation, the woman’s relationship “veered betwixt acknowledgment and contestation of the facts,” according to the constabulary prosecutor’s statement, but she revealed that she had led Lola to the flat of her sister, who lived successful the aforesaid artifact of flats. She is presently nether authoritative probe relating to Lola’s murder, the connection said.

There, according to the statement, she said she forced the miss to instrumentality a ablution earlier “committing intersexual assaults and different unit connected her that resulted successful her death,” earlier she hid the child’s assemblage successful the integrative box.

Speaking to CNN affiliate BFMTV, Hafida, a schoolfriend of Lola’s said: “It doesn’t privation to spell into my head. I’m telling myself, ‘No, I’m going to spot her aboriginal astatine recess, but no.’”

Bamba, the parent of a person of Lola’s who utilized to slumber implicit astatine their house, besides expressed her daze astatine what had happened. “I can’t judge it,” she told BFMTV, “I’m telling myself that it’s not possible, that could hap to anyone, adjacent to me.”

On Tuesday afternoon, flowers were piling up extracurricular the gathering wherever Lola lived, arsenic locals paid homage to a beingness brutally chopped short. Local authorities successful the 19th arrondissement of Paris wherever the sidesplitting occurred person besides opened a enactment halfway for section people, particularly schoolchildren, on with bolstered constabulary patrols astir schools, the 19th arrondissement politician said successful a statement.

Police person besides detained a 43-year-old man, an acquaintance of the main suspect, who confessed to having transported the 24-year-old pistillate with her suitcases and the integrative container to his location extracurricular Paris and past arranging for her to instrumentality to the superior with the container and cases successful a taxi, according to the prosecutor’s statement.

Investigations continue, according to the constabulary authoritative statement, to find the nonstop events surrounding the killing.