THE GIRL IN THE TRUNK

INA BAFFLING CRIME THAT HAS SHOCKED FRANCE, A 12-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLGIRL WAS ABDUCTED AND KILLED METRES FROM HOME

- Michael Crooks

For the Daviet family, Fridays were always special. Once 12-year-old Lola finished school and returned to the family apartment in northeast Paris, where she lived with parents Delphine and Johan, and elder brother, Thibault, the family would make a three hour drive north to their ‘family village’ of Fouquereuil for the weekend.

So when Lola failed to arrive home on the Friday afternoon of October 14, her parents were immediately worried. Johan, who is the joint caretaker of the apartment block with Delphine, searched the building’s CCTV footage from the day. To his surprise, he found Lola, in white jeans and a white hoodie, entering the building at 3.20 pm with an unknown woman. The parents called the police.