It was 11 p.m. on Friday when a homeless man reported to the police the discovery of an opaque box containing the body of a young girl, in the interior courtyard of a building. The body of the schoolgirl, named Lola, was concealed by fabrics. Two carry-on suitcases sat next to the box. The trunk was found at the bottom of the building where the girl lived, and whose father was the caretaker.
The story of the day
The victim’s parents were worried around 3 p.m., not seeing her return from the college located right next to their apartment in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. The father had informed his wife, who went to the police station to report his disappearance. A complaint for worrying disappearance is then filed.
On her Facebook page, the mother had launched a call for witnesses on Friday afternoon, describing her daughter. Two photos accompany this publication. One shows the smiling teenager with her long blonde hair. On the second, apparently taken from CCTV images, we see an unknown young woman entering a building. In her publication, the mother specifies that her daughter was seen “for the last time at 3:20 p.m. in the company of a girl whom we do not know” in their residence.
According to the testimony of a neighbor reported by our colleagues from Parisian“ a young woman asked him in the afternoon to give her a hand to carry a large trunk to a vehicle”. He refused, she left. Searches are then launched throughout the building, in vain. Then around 11 p.m., a homeless man reported to the police the discovery of an opaque box containing Lola’s body, in the interior courtyard of a building.
Death by asphyxiation
An autopsy of the body was performed on Saturday to investigate the cause of death. It determined that the girl had died of asphyxiation. The first findings had reported wounds on the neck. The Parisian evokes intriguing inscriptions, 1s and 0s, found on the body of the victim.
An open investigation, six people in custody
An investigation for “murder of a minor under the age of 15” was opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the criminal brigade. Six people were taken into custody. Their role has yet to be determined.
During the night from Friday to Saturday, the investigators arrested three people near the scene and a woman was arrested on Saturday morning in Bois-Colombes, near Paris. Two other people were arrested and also placed in police custody on Saturday during the day.