Asked, the Paris prosecutor's office confirmed the information obtained by AFP, from a source close to the case, according to which Dahbia Benkired would be tried for “the murder of a 15-year-old minor accompanied or preceded by rape, torture or barbaric acts as well as for rape committed against a minor with torture or barbaric act”, in accordance with his requisitions.
Dahbia Benkired faces life imprisonment.
Lawyer for Lola's family, Me Clotilde Lepetit welcomed on Friday “an instruction which shows the seriousness of the work which has been devoted to this extraordinary criminal case”.
“Ms. Daviet wanted the highest level of legal debate to be held so that the terrible crimes committed against her daughter could be judged. We will have it,” said the lawyer.
“We hope that the debates necessary for judicial truth will take place calmly, far from the media agitation and the nonsense of social networks”, reacted to AFP Mes Alexandre Silva and Lucile Bertier, lawyers of Dahbia Benkired.
On Friday October 14, 2022, Lola, who had not returned from college in the afternoon, was found lifeless in a plastic box, in the interior courtyard of the building in the capital, where she lived.
While looking for his daughter, her father, a caretaker of the residence who has since died, saw Lola enter the hall with an unknown woman on video surveillance images.
The latter left the building around 5 p.m., pulling heavy luggage including a plastic trunk.
The Criminal Brigade had arrested Dahbia Benkired on Saturday morning, a young Algerian born in 1998, who entered France legally in 2016 with a student residence permit, under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) since two months. The non-execution of this measure had aroused virulent criticism from the right and the far right.
The government in return castigated the “indecency” of this “political recovery”.
Several hundred people, including many college students, took part in a moving white march in tribute to Lola.
“It is in these difficult times, of extreme violence, that the best rubs shoulders with the worst,” his mother told the crowd. “The best is you here present, it’s solidarity, it’s fraternity (…). The worst is the uses of our daughter’s image for commercial or political purposes,” she denounced.
While in police custody, Dahbia Benkired said she “forced (Lola) to shower before committing sexual assaults and other violence on her which resulted in death. She allegedly hid the body in the box” , Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau reported at the time in a press release.
The autopsy revealed that Lola died of asphyxiation. His body showed “multiple other injuries”, notably to the neck, but no “traumatic lesion of the sexual sphere”.
According to the source close to the case, the final order notes that Dahbia Benkired did everything to hide her crime.
At the end of her indictment, she was incarcerated in particular in the Unit for Difficult Patients (UMD).
According to the prosecution, an initial psychiatric assessment concluded that the accused did not suffer from “any psychological or neuropsychic disorder having abolished or altered his discernment”, even if “on a social level (and not on a psychiatric level), his dangerousness should attract full attention.
According to the public prosecutor, two other doctors then concluded that “the existence of manipulative behavior stemming from a pathological personality or a strategy, and not from a major psychiatric pathology”.
According to the source close to the case, a dismissal of the case was ordered for a man who transported Dahbia Benkired with the box and for a time welcomed her into his home, although according to this source, the judge notes in his order that he questioned too little about the contents of the box.
