The 24-year-old, who suffers from a mental disorder, brought the 12-year-old to her sister’s apartment, made her take a shower, raped her, killed her and hid her in a suitcase.
French society is in a state of shock after the revelation of the gruesome end of 12-year-old Lona, who was found dead in a suitcase.
The French authorities yesterday charged a 24-year-old woman suspected of rape and murder of the minor girl, whose body was found in a trunk the manufacture.
The main suspect, a 24-year-old woman who suffers from a mental disorder, was questioned on Monday along with an elderly man who was also considered a suspect.
The 24-year-old is accused of raping and murdering the 12-year-old, as well as torture and abuse, according to a source.
A judge ordered that he be remanded in custody.
According to a statement from the French prosecutor’s office, during the interrogation the 24-year-old woman was contradicting herself, on the one hand admitting and on the other hand denying the facts.
He eventually admitted that he had brought Lola to her sister’s apartment, located in the same building as the child, where he forced her to take a shower.
The woman said she then “perpetrated an offense of a sexual nature and other acts of violence against Lola, which caused her death and hid her body in the trunk,” prosecutors said.
According to the results of the autopsy, the 12-year-old died due to “cardiorespiratory failure with signs of suffocation and cervical compression.”
Other non-fatal wounds were found on her face and back, as well as large gashes in her neck. The numbers 0 and 1 were written in red on the soles of each of her feet.
“Investigations are continuing to establish exactly what happened and to establish the criminal responsibility of those involved,” prosecutors added.
The suspect’s lawyer expressed his support for Lola’s family and insisted on the presumption of innocence for his client.
The 43-year-old who was also questioned yesterday admitted that he brought the 24-year-old to his house with a trunk and two suitcases. The woman stayed at his house for two hours and then left in a car he called on her behalf
Spotted by cameras
The suspect was arrested on Saturday in Bois-Colombes in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, after investigators tracked her movements on cameras from the building and the surrounding area, while also using phone records.
Lola’s parents called the police because their daughter did not return from school on Friday afternoon.
Her father, a security guard of the building, was disturbed to see the unknown woman enter the building in the 19th Arrondissement of Paris with his daughter when he checked the CCTV footage.
An eyewitness who also saw the suspect at the scene said she had offered him money to help her move a large trunk, multiple media outlets reported.
But a homeless man was the first to discover the body, which sources familiar with the investigation said was hidden under tarps in a plastic box in the building’s courtyard.
Six people, including the suspect’s sister and others who had contact with her immediately after the murder, have so far been detained in the case, while four have been released.
Local residents placed flowers at the gate of the family’s building over the weekend.
Meanwhile, school authorities announced they would set up psychological support for staff and students at Lola’s school and others in the area.
A mother told AFP that her daughter, another student who knew Lola by sight, “wasn’t doing well today, she doesn’t want to go to school”.
With information from AFP
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