A five-year-old girl, reported missing in the early afternoon by her parents, was finally found dead, in an apartment located just a hundred meters from her home, a few hours after her disappearance. A young man of 15 or 16 years old was taken into custody. 20 minutes looks back on this drama which took place in the small town of Rambervillers, in the Vosges.
What happened Tuesday at Rambervillers?
A five-year-old girl was found dead in a bag in an apartment in Rambervillers, a small town of 5,000 inhabitants. The parents, a Romanian family residing there, had reported the disappearance of their daughter at the beginning of the afternoon. “The municipal police officers intervened first, they were the ones who discovered the body, and then the help came, they tried to give cardiac massage, but there was nothing to do, there was unfortunately too late, ”said the mayor of the town, Jean-Pierre Michel.
The girl’s body was naked, according to the daily The Lorraine Republicanand placed in a garbage bag of this apartment located rue du Parmoulin, a quiet street in the old quarter of the city, a hundred meters from his home.
How was the girl found?
According to Jean-Pierre Michel, the parents, a Romanian family residing there, first asked local residents if they had seen their daughter, describing her physically and giving details of her dress. . It was then that a young man allegedly said he saw a girl who might fit the description and pointed in a completely opposite direction from where the girl was found. “Undoubtedly to cover the tracks”, advanced the mayor.
This Wednesday, the girl’s mother confirmed that she had alerted the police on Tuesday in the early afternoon after noting the disappearance of her child, who was playing in front of the house.
According to a source close to the investigation, the young man was arrested in the apartment where the body of the girl was found before being placed in police custody on the spot. It was he who contacted the police to tell them that he had discovered a body in the apartment rented by his mother, reports The Republican East. A source close to the investigation said on Tuesday that the teenager is suspected of having moved the body.
What do we know about the young man taken into custody?
According to the mayor, the teenager was “known to the municipal police and certainly to the gendarmerie, for acts related to sexual abuse”. The young man “would have attracted young children to have inappropriate sexual gestures”.
According Morning Vosges, the teenager had been the subject of several reports in recent days for having proposed to several young girls to accompany him to his apartment to give them a cat. The teenager “has been placed”, specified the elected official. The young man “had reappeared on the territory of Rambervillers a few weeks ago, which worried the municipal police a little bit, who were attentive”, said Jean-Pierre Michel again, without being able to say whether or not the teenager is from the small town. The teenager would suffer, according to The Lorraine Republicanpsychiatric disorders and was released “a few weeks ago” from a specialized institution.
Have the parents spoken?
“I am destroyed,” the mother of the 5-year-old girl said Wednesday morning. “It’s too painful, it won’t go away,” the dark-haired woman said, tearfully speaking to reporters outside her home. “They say that two weeks ago he was locked up in a mental hospital. Why did they let him out? “, protested the mother of the victim, speaking of the young man placed in police custody.
“I want justice to be done and that we no longer leave the sick outside, because they do not destroy a single life, they destroy the life of the whole family, added the mother of the family. They destroyed my life, all my memories with my daughter, all my plans, they took everything away from me. They took my little princess. »