The body of a 12-year-old schoolgirl was discovered in a trunk on Friday evening near the building where she lived with her family in northeastern Paris.
Four people were taken into police custody, we learned on Saturday from a source close to the case and from the prosecution.
It was 11:00 p.m. 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 was concealed by fabrics, according to sources close to the file. Two carry-on suitcases sat next to the box.
The trunk was found at the bottom of the building where the girl lived, according to the prosecution.
During the night, the investigators arrested, according to a source familiar with the matter, three people near the scene and a woman was arrested on Saturday morning in Bois-Colombes, near Paris.
All were placed in police custody, according to the prosecution, which specified that their role remained to be determined.