A FEMALE unlawful migrant who allegedly raped, tortured and suffocated a schoolgirl to dying is about to face trial.
Algerian migrant Dahbia Benkired, now aged 27, is accused of murdering 12-year-old Lola Daviet in a case that shocked France three years in the past.
The younger woman was found in a plastic suitcase close to her constructing within the French capital of Paris.
Investigators say Benkired slashed Lola’s throat with scissors and a field cutter earlier than taping her face with duct tape, which led to her dying.
She positioned the physique in a trunk and satisfied a good friend to drive her and the baggage to his house, cops mentioned.
The accused then took a taxi with the trunk again to the constructing the place her sister lived, in line with the investigators.
She fled when she noticed police deployed within the space, however was arrested the subsequent day.
Locals noticed Benkired within the foyer of the house block within the nineteenth district on October 14, 2022, carrying suitcases and a heavy trunk lined in a blanket, the investigation confirmed.
An hour and a half earlier, safety footage confirmed Benkired approaching the woman as she returned from faculty.
She was then seen main her into the flat her sister occupied within the constructing.
Benkired instructed investigators she had been indignant with the woman’s mom, who had refused to provide her an entry badge for the constructing, after her sister had given her a key to her flat.
She was discovered to have overstayed a scholar visa and didn’t adjust to a discover to depart France.
The accused admitted in courtroom at present that she compelled the younger woman to undress and wash herself, then carry out a intercourse act on her “for my pleasure”.
Benkired had a troublesome upbringing together with her aunts earlier than she settled in France in 2013, the investigation confirmed.
She instructed the courtroom that she had been abused by household and neighbours as she grew up, claiming her aunts “compelled her to look at pornographic movies… and groped her within the forest”.
“It’s horrible what I did. I remorse it,” Benkired mentioned, asking the woman’s relations to forgive her.
Benkired, whose trial is to final till subsequent Friday, faces a most sentence of life in jail.
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