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France tries woman for rape and murder of schoolgirl

Delphine Daviet, mother of Lola, arrives at the Paris Assize Court for the trial of Dahbia Benkired, accused of raping, torturing, and killing Lola Daviet, a 12-year-old girl, in 2022, on October 17, 2025. [AFP]

An Algerian woman went on trial in France Friday, accused of raping, torturing and murdering a 12-year-old girl in Paris in a case that horrified the country.

Dahbia Benkired, now aged 27, was detained after Lola Daviet went missing in the northeast of the capital three years ago, and her body was then found in a trunk in the lobby of the building where her father and mother worked as caretakers.

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