Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Israeli Police Search For Missing Child

Police in Israel are searching for a missing girl who detectives fear was killed by her grandfather and whose disappearance has gripped the nation.

Divers were yesterday working through the Yarkon river, north of Tel Aviv, looking for the body of Rose Pizem, four, who police think was killed, bundled into a suitcase and then dropped in the water as long as three months ago.

The girl's mother, Marie-Charlotte Renault, 23, and the child's paternal grandfather, Ronny Ron, 45, who were in a relationship, are both being held on remand suspected of involvement in the murder.

Although Rose disappeared in May, police only heard of her disappearance two weeks ago when they were alerted by welfare workers that the girl was missing from her home in Netanya.

Rose was born in Paris in 2004, when her newly married parents, Renault and Benjamin Pizem, were still teenagers. After a year the couple travelled to Israel to meet Pizem's father, Ron, whom Pizem had never met before.

But after some months Renault announced she had fallen in love with Ron and was staying in Israel to be with him. Pizem returned to France with his daughter, Rose.


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