Dahbia Benkired will be tried in court for murder “accompanied or preceded by rape, torture or acts of barbarism”

No criminal irresponsibility for Dahbia Benkired: a Parisian investigating judge ordered on Friday, November 15, a criminal trial for this Algerian born in 1998 accused of the murder “barbarian” of Lola, 12, at the end of 2022, in Paris, which caused a national stir.

When questioned, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed the information obtained by Agence France-Presse (AFP), from a source close to the case, according to which Dahbia Benkired would be tried for “the murder of a minor under 15 years of age accompanied or preceded by rape, torture or barbaric acts, as well as rape committed against a minor with torture or barbaric acts”according to your requests. Dahbia Benkired faces life in prison.

Lawyer for Lola’s family, M^my Clotilde Lepetit greeted on Friday “an instruction that demonstrates the seriousness of the work that has been dedicated to this extraordinary criminal case”. Lola’s mother “METRO^me Daviet wanted a legal debate to be held at the highest level so that the terrible crimes committed against his daughter could be judged. “We will have it”the lawyer estimated.

“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 M^are Alexandre Silva and Lucile Bertier, lawyers at Dahbia Benkired.

On Friday, October 14, 2022, Lola, who had not returned from the university in the afternoon, was found dead in a plastic box, in the interior patio of the capital building where she lived. While looking for his daughter, her father, a caretaker of the residence who is now deceased, had seen Lola enter the lobby with an unknown woman on video surveillance images. The latter left the building around five in the afternoon, dragging heavy luggage, including a plastic trunk.

On Saturday morning, the anti-crime brigade arrested Dahbia Benkired, a young Algerian woman born in 1998, who entered France legally in 2016 with a student residence permit, with the obligation to leave French territory for two months. The non-execution of this measure had sparked virulent criticism from the right and the extreme right.

“Dangerousness”

The government, in return, punished “indecency” from this “political recovery”. Several hundred people, including many university students, participated in a moving white march in tribute to Lola.

“It is in these difficult times, of extreme violence, when the best rub shoulders with the worst”his mother had declared to the crowd. “The best thing is you, here present, it is solidarity, it is brotherhood (…). The worst thing is the use of our daughter’s image for commercial or political purposes.”he denounced.

During his police arrest, Dahbia Benkired said that he had “tax [à Lola] to shower, before committing sexual assaults and other acts of violence against her that resulted in death. “I would have hidden the body in the box.”The Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, reported then in a press release. The autopsy revealed that Lola died of asphyxiation. His body showed “multiple other injuries”especially in the neck, but not “traumatic injury in the sexual sphere”.

According to a source close to the case, the final order states that Dahbia Benkired did everything possible to hide her crime. At the end of her accusation, she was imprisoned, especially in a unit for difficult patients.

According to the prosecution, an initial psychiatric evaluation concluded that the defendant did not suffer from“no psychological or neuropsychological disorder has abolished or altered his discernment”even if “on a social level [et non sur le plan psychiatrique]“Its dangerousness had to attract all the attention.”.

According to the prosecutor, two other doctors then concluded that “the existence of manipulative behavior resulting from a pathological personality or strategy, and not from a major psychiatric pathology”.

According to a source close to the case, the case was ordered to be dismissed for a man who transported Dahbia Benkired with the plastic trunk and sheltered her for a time in his home, although, according to this source, the judge indicated in his order that he thought very little in the contents of the trunk.