12 Year Old American Girl Murdered In Paris, Stuffed In Suitcase

The final image of a 12-year-old girl who was discovered dead inside a suitcase in Paris has been revealed in CCTV footage taken moments before her death.

A murder probe has been launched into the death of the girl - known only as Lola - after her corpse was found tied up inside the plastic suitcase close to her home in the French capital late on Friday night.

The victim was discovered with her feet and wrists bound, tape around her face and several cuts to her throat, just hours after she was reported missing by her parents.

She also had the numbers '1' and '0' imprinted on her lifeless body, not painted or cut but placed by a 'device', according to police source cited by French broadcaster BFMTV.

A post-mortem examination on Saturday concluded that she had died of asphyxiation.

Chilling security camera footage has now emerged which showed the young girl, dressed in a white outfit and carrying what appears to be a schoolbag, walking into her building behind a woman who witnesses claimed was later seen carrying the suitcase.

The suspect, who in CCTV footage was dressed in white trainers, light leggings and a grey jumper, was arrested on Saturday morning in Bois-Colombe (Hauts-de-Seine) along with her sister, franceinfo learned from a source familiar with the matter.

Both the suspect and her sibling are in their twenties.