A Parisian investigating judge ordered this Friday a trial against Dahbia B. for the murder of the young Lola, at the end of 2022 in Paris, which had aroused national emotion, we learnedAFP from a source close to the case.
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When requested, the Paris public prosecutor's office confirmed the information obtained by theAFPfrom a source close to the case, according to which Dahbia B. would be tried for “the murder of a minor aged 15 accompanied or preceded by rape, torture or barbaric acts as well as for rape committed against a minor with torture or barbaric acts”, in accordance with his requisitions.
Dahbia B. faces life imprisonment.
Lawyer for Lola's family, Me Clotilde Lepetit greeted Friday “an instruction which shows the seriousness of the work which has been devoted to this extraordinary criminal case”.
“Mrs. 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”estimated 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 for Dahbia B.
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 B. 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) for two months. The non-execution of this measure had aroused virulent criticism from the right and the far right.
“Dangerousness”
The government in return castigated “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 had declared to the crowd. “The best is you here, it’s solidarity, it’s fraternity […]. The worst is the use of our daughter’s image for commercial or political purposes”she denounced.
While in police custody, Dahbia B. said she had “forced (Lola) to shower before committing sexual assaults on her and other violence resulting in death. She would have hidden the body in the crate”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 lesions”especially at the neck, but not “traumatic injury to the sexual sphere”.
According to the source close to the case, the final order notes that Dahbia B. 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 was not suffering “of no psychic or neuropsychic disorder having abolished or altered his discernment”even if “on a social level (and not on a psychiatric level), its dangerousness should receive full attention”.
According to the public prosecutor, two other doctors then concluded that “the existence of manipulative behavior resulting 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 B. with the box and, for a time, welcomed her into his home, although according to this source, the judge noted in his order that he questioned too little about the contents of the box.
