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.

Published in Dawn, April 17th, 2015

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