A five-year-old girl was found dead on Tuesday inside a garbage bag in an apartment near her home shortly after her mother reported her missing in the town of Rambervillers, in Vosges, northern France, as confirmed by the mayor of the town, Jean Pierre Michel, to the AFP agency.
As reported to the aforementioned agency, there is a young man of about 15 or 16 years in police custody. According to the newspaper L'Est Republicain, the teenager is booked by the police and has been arrested by the agents. The mayor of the town has specified that he was booked for having "acts related to sexual abuse with minors."
The girl's parents had reported the child missing in the early afternoon, and had asked neighbors if they had seen her.
"The girl has been found in the apartment lifeless. The municipal police officers were the first to intervene, they are the ones who found the girl's body. They tried to do a heart massage but there was nothing to do, it was too late," Jean-Pierre Michel, mayor of this town of 5,000 inhabitants, told AFP.
An investigation has been opened. According to the newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain, the teenager has been arrested in the same apartment where the girl's body has been found. Other local media indicate that the suspect suffers from psychiatric problems.
According to Vosges Matin, he himself called the police to say he had found the body in his mother's apartment. One of the researchers has pointed out to this medium that "he was known because he had had pedophilic behaviors a few years ago. He had returned to the town a few days ago and was riding his bicycle."
Last autumn another event shocked France, when the body of a 12-year-old girl was found inside a suitcase in the center of Paris.
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