French police have launched a murder investigation after the body of a 12-year-old girl was discovered in a suitcase outside her home.
The victim, who has been named only as Lola, is believed to have been raped and tortured before being killed.
On Monday, two suspects, a woman, 24, and a man, 43, appeared before a judge in Paris. Two other people are reportedly being questioned by police.
An official investigation was opened at the weekend for “rape committed with acts of torture and barbarism” and for “the concealing of a corpse”.
The principal suspect was arrested on Saturday while out with her 21-year-old sister. She was allegedly caught on CCTV cameras with the victim on Friday a few minutes after she left school. The woman was later seen by local people pushing a large plastic suitcase.
The suitcase was left in the inside courtyard of the apartment block where the girl lived and where her parents were the caretakers in the 19th arrondissement in north-east Paris.
Credit: theguardian.com
