The brutal murder of a 12-year-old student whose body was discovered in a container in the courtyard of her apartment building on Friday has startled Parisians.
The girl, Lola, had spent the day at school as usual.
When she failed to return home in the afternoon, he sounded the alarm.
A transparent plastic container carrying her remains was discovered at the base of the building in the 19th arrondissement later that evening.
Lola’s father works as a concierge in the apartment complex. Her body was discovered squished and concealed by debris within the container.
Her hands and ankles were reportedly bound and she had a gash on her neck, but the autopsy conducted over the weekend revealed that she died of asphyxiation. Two Post-it notes with the numbers “0” and “1” were found on her feet.
Saturday morning, police detained the prime suspect in the murder, a 24-year-old woman of Algerian descent identified in the press as Dahbia B.
The woman was recognizable from security footage recorded at the apartment complex, in which she was seen entering the building with Lola on Friday afternoon.
Later, she was observed taking a container out of the building and acting irrationally on the street. One eyewitness reported that she begged for assistance in exchange for money from an “organ-trafficking operation.”
However, the police stated that they did not consider this to be a credible lead. Their most credible argument is that Dahbia B, who does not have a permanent residence, is psychologically unstable and that her act was “gratuitous.”
A 43-year-old man who is thought to have transported Dahbia B and the container in his automobile is also in jail. Police believe Dahbia B returned to the apartment block where her sister also resides after being chauffeured around the Paris suburbs by her boyfriend.
There, the two sisters reportedly had a raucous argument before Dahbia B departed once more, this time without the container. She spent the night in a Bois-Colombes suburb apartment where she was picked up the next day.
The police have begun an inquiry into the murder of a minor accompanied by acts of torture and barbarism. It is anticipated that Dahbia B would be placed under court inquiry and detained.
Monday morning, children and parents were noticeably distressed at Lola’s school. Education Minister Pap Ndiaye and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo visited the school, and psychological support teams have been dispatched to console the students.
“My daughter wept the entire weekend and has not slept a wink,” Gasmi, a father of two, told Le Parisien. We can no longer trust anyone in our neighborhood, and I fear for my children’s safety.
A local woman told the publication, “It’s turned me upside down.” “This morning, as a precaution, I accompanied my son to school just a few meters behind him.
“I’ll transport him to school and pick him up from now on. If he completes his task at half past four, I will leave work at four. It cannot be negotiated.”
Brigitte Macron, the president’s wife, described the incident as “totally abhorrent and disgusting.”
