A 24-year-old woman was charged in Paris on Monday after the brutal murder of a 12-year-old schoolgirl named Lola in the capital’s 19th arrondissement on Friday. According to a judicial source, detention was applied to him as a preventive measure. The woman and man were brought before an investigating magistrate on charges of “murder and rape with acts of torture and barbarity” after the schoolgirl’s body was found in a plastic box. A judicial investigation has been started.
The woman, considered the main suspect, was arrested early Saturday in Bois-Colombe (Haute-de-Seine). According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, the suspect allegedly dragged the victim to his sister’s apartment in the same building as the child and forced her to take a shower before sexually assaulting and assaulting her, leading to her death. “The suspect has no criminal record as a perpetrator, but only one as a victim of domestic violence, 2018.said a source close to the investigation.
The 43-year-old man is suspected of harboring the suspect and driving the car he was in. He was charged with concealment by the head of the body and placed under judicial supervision, a judicial source said. Preliminary detention is not possible due to the imposed sentence. Both suspects were born in Algeria. The suspect arrived in France in 2016 with a student residence permit. He was notified of an obligation to leave the area after he was arrested by police at the airport on August 21, 2022, citing lack of a residence permit, according to a source close to the investigation.
Plastic box
The case began late Friday afternoon. Worried about not seeing their daughter back from college, the teenager’s parents alerted the 19th District Police Department about her disappearance. The guardian of the building, the girl’s father watched the video surveillance of the apartment. he told investigators that his daughter entered his building after school around 3:15 p.m. in the company of a young woman of North African appearance in her twenties. years. The latter then left the building with heavy luggage around 17:00. Panicked, the girl’s parents posted a kidnapping alert on Facebook at 8:45 p.m. with two photos of their child, a blonde girl with a sweet face, and one of the suspect in leggings and sneakers.
The witness, in turn, told the police that this woman approached him a little earlier in the day. She wanted him to help her carry a large trunk to load it into the Dacia car. Around 11:15 p.m., a homeless person finally found an opaque plastic box containing the teenager’s body in the courtyard of the building where Lola’s family lives. The twisted and bound body of the student was covered with fabrics. There were two suitcases nearby. An autopsy conducted Saturday found that Lola died of asphyxiation, according to a source close to the investigation.
After expressing his thoughts“horror” The experience of the teenager’s family, the suspect’s lawyer Me Alexander Silva, asked the press at the end of the closed-door debate before the liberty and detention judges. “rumors” stop the case and remind the principle of presumption of innocence. He thus dismissed “rumor” murder, which will be related to the sale of organs, which “I have never been part of debates” and that “I’ll never be a part of it”. The council also dismissed the hypothesis “Rituals on children”.
Psychological support cells
Over the weekend, many residents showed their sadness and fear by placing flowers at the gate of the victim’s family residence and on the low wall leading to the building. “She was a sweet, quiet and shy little girl, very close to her parents.”– confides the friend of the family, very shocked.
The rectory announced the creation of psychological support cells for students and staff at George-Brasens College, where Lola was educated, and schools in the area. The mayor of the 19th district, Francois Dano, went to the girls’ college on Monday morning. “This college, this school community and an entire district are going through a terrible ordeal.”he said.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, also went there to meet the education community, and the minister of national education, Pope Ndiaye, participated in a moment of silence in the institution’s teaching room, then in Lola’s fifth grade. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin called the girl’s parents to express his condolences.
Source: Le Figaro
