DISTURBING CONTENT: Dahbia Benkired made a chilling confession in court before receiving a rare life sentence for the rape and murder of 12-year-old Lola Daviet.
A murderer who raped and tortured a schoolgirl he didn’t know before killing her has made a chilling admission in court.
Dahbia Benkired, 27, has become the first woman in French history to be sentenced to life in prison, after being found guilty of the horrific murder of Lola Daviet. The woman put Lola’s body in a suitcase and threw it in the lobby of the apartment building where the young woman lived with her family, in 2022. Benkired made a horrible confession in court, in the shocking trial that shocked France and led to a rare life sentence.
Lola’s mother, Delphine, told the court that her daughter came home for lunch on October 14, 2022, before leaving again. Delphine recalled her last words to her little girl, telling the court: “I kissed her, I said ‘see you later.'”
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Benkired approached Lola outside her apartment block in northeast Paris. Benkired had stayed with her sister but left her house with two suitcases after the “love of her life” that morning “insulted” her and refused to have a child with her, the killer told the court.
As he walked, Benkired passed Lola and told the court: “In my head, I said to myself ‘I’m going to hurt someone’.” She asked Lola to help her carry the suitcases to a building and she said yes. Benkired recalled that the young woman said her “parents don’t want” her to help strangers, but the evil woman said, “I told her ‘no, don’t worry.'”
Benkired took the young woman to an apartment and unleashed a horrific hour-and-a-half attack on the young woman, where she was raped and tortured before her mouth was bandaged and she was suffocated to death.
Killer made chilling confession in courtroom, according to LeParisienand said: “I took revenge on the girl. She was a weaker person than me. I didn’t choose her, she came suddenly.” He also said, “Since I raped her, I might as well kill her.”
Lola’s mother told the court that she always told her children to shout and be careful around strangers, saying: “If they attack you, don’t hesitate to shout. There will always be someone who will listen to you.” Delphine added: “I couldn’t save my Lola. My heart is forever broken.”
France’s attorney general said Benkired, an Algerian immigrant who had illegally overstayed her student visa, had prayed for the teenager “for pleasure and satisfaction of her sexual urges.” The judge, reading the verdict, called Benkired’s actions “real torture.”
He said: “In determining the appropriate sentence, the court took into account the unspeakable psychological harm suffered by the victim and her family in such violent and almost indescribable circumstances.”
After the sentencing, Delphine said: “We believed in justice and we got it.” Lola’s brother said: “We have restored my sister’s memory, we have restored the truth.”
