A Parisian investigating judge on Friday ordered a trial against Algerian Dahbia Benkired for the murder of young Lola at the end of 2022 in Paris, which had sparked national emotion, AFP learned from a source close to the case.
Requested by AFP, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that Dahbia Benkired would be tried for “the murder of a minor aged 15 accompanied or preceded by rape, torture or acts of barbarity, to the detriment of young Lola , as well as for rape committed against a minor with torture or barbaric act. Dahbia Benkired thus faces life imprisonment.
Lawyer for Lola’s family, Me Clotilde Lepetit welcomed “an investigation which shows the seriousness and the work which has been devoted to this extraordinary criminal case”. Lola’s mother “Mrs. Daviet wanted the highest level of legal proceedings to be held so that the terrible crimes committed against her daughter could be judged. We will have it,” greeted 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, caretaker of the residence, had seen on video surveillance images Lola entering the hall around 3:15 p.m. with a woman he did not know. The latter left the building around 5 p.m., pulling heavy luggage including a plastic trunk.
The criminal brigade of the Parisian judicial police had arrested the suspect, Dahbia Benkired, on Saturday morning in Bois-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), a young Algerian born in 1998, who entered France legally in 2016 with a residence permit. ‘student. She had been under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) for two months.
The fact that it was still present in France had aroused virulent criticism from the right and the extreme 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. Lola’s father died in early February.
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