- The girl disappeared on Friday afternoon when her relatives reported that she had not returned home after school.

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Four arrested after the discovery of the body of a girl in a suitcase in Paris

Four people have been arrested after the body of a 12-year-old girl was found inside a suitcase on a Paris street, local media reported this Saturday.

The girl disappeared on Friday afternoon when her relatives reported that she had not returned home after school.

An inspection of security cameras in the area showed a woman struggling to move a suitcase past the building where the family lives.

The suitcase, with the body inside, was found nearby shortly after by a homeless person. The event occurred in the 19th district of the French capital.

The police keep the investigations secret but several leaks to local media indicate that the body had cuts in the throat and was tied with packing tape.

The investigators, who found the tape and a cutter in a basement of the building where the girl lived, are awaiting the autopsy to be carried out this Saturday and the interrogations of the detainees to try to close the case.

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