Schoolgirls 'stubbed out cigarettes and urinated on 12-year-old'

French Police are investigating reports that three girls, aged between 13 and 15, allegedly tortured a younger girl

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Three French schoolgirls suspected of torturing a younger girl are being questioned by police, it has been reported.

In an interview with Europe 1 radio, the father of the victim said the girls had stubbed out cigarettes on the 12-year-old’s face and arms, according to the BBC.

The victim was also apparently left with a dislocated jaw, was urinated on, and slashed with a knife.

It is also alleged that the gang, from south-eastern Paris suburb Creteil, extorted money from the victim and tortured her after she had gone to steal from a grocer’s.

The girl’s father said: “It’s very complicated – she kept silent about it, and finally she told us ‘I feared causing problems for you’.”

According to Le Parisien, the alleged attackers are aged between 13 and 15.

The girl’s mother, quoted in the newspaper, said that she had found her daughter bleeding and shaken in the street on Tuesday and that this is when she discovered what the schoolgirls had “subjected her to since December”.

The girls accused of the wrongdoing are now in custody, Le Parisien reports.