Northern French town buries 12-year-old murder victim

Flowers and messages are displayed near a portrait of Lola, a 12-year-old schoolgirl, who was brutally killed and whose body was stuffed in a trunk in the 19th district in Paris, during a tribute in Fouquereuil, northern France, October 21, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

PARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of people paid their respect on Monday at the funeral of a 12-year-old girl whose battered body was found stuffed in a suitcase outside her Paris home.

The case has divided France as the suspect is an illegal immigrant.