CALAIS: France was in shock on Thursday after a nine-year-old girl was found dead in a wood shortly after being snatched in front of her mother from a playground in the northern city of Calais.
A Polish man who had been banned from French territory, has admitted to raping and murdering the girl, sources close to the investigation said.
The 38-year-old was arrested on Wednesday night near the woods where her naked, lifeless body was found.
Chloe was playing with a friend when a man “appeared and grabbed her, forcing her to get into a red car,” prosecutors said in a statement.
Her mother, who was present with two other children, burst into panicked screams as the man, described by witnesses as bald and wearing sunglasses, shoved her daughter into his car.