“Murder”, “rape”… The prosecution requests a trial for Dahbia B.

Eleven months after Lola’s murder, the question has not yet been definitively settled. Was Dahbia B.’s discernment abolished when she savagely raped, tortured and killed this 12-year-old schoolgirl on October 14, 2022, in the 9th arrondissement of the capital? Her statements at the beginning of the case raised doubts: the main suspect spoke in turn of “a dream”, “a knife attack”, and a fight with “a ghost”.

The Paris prosecutor’s office nevertheless decided to follow the conclusions of the experts who then examined this 24-year-old woman, and found Dahbia B. criminally responsible for the facts.

As revealed RMChe requested, on September 9, his referral to the assize court for rape of a minor with torture or acts of barbarity, and murder of a minor under 15 years of age accompanied by rape, torture or acts of barbarity. For these facts, Dahbia B faces life imprisonment. “It is now up to the investigating judge to decide by order on the qualifications he will retain and on the possible referral to the assize court,” the prosecution indicated to 20 Minutes.

Statements that raise questions

On Friday, October 14, 2022, Lola is late coming home from school. While looking for his daughter, her father, the caretaker of the residence, sees on the video surveillance images the little girl entering the hall around 3:15 p.m. with a woman he does not know. The latter comes out of the building around 5 p.m., pulling heavy luggage including a plastic trunk. A few hours later, Lola’s body is found lifeless in this box, hidden in the interior courtyard of the building in the capital where she lived.

Very quickly, investigators from the criminal brigade identified and located the suspect. She was Dahbia B., an Algerian born in 1998, who had been under an OQTF (obligation to leave French territory) for two months. The young woman was arrested on Saturday morning in Bois-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) and taken into custody at the premises of the judicial police. Although “fluctuating”, her statements were chilling. She said she had “imposed [à Lola] to shower before committing sexual assaults and other acts of violence against her resulting in death,” Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau reported in a statement at the time.

She later retracted her story, claiming to have told the police “a dream and not reality.” Concerning Lola’s murder, Dahbia B. remained vague. The suspect may have defended herself “against a knife attack,” “fought against a ghost,” Laure Beccuau reported. But it is “impossible” that she could have killed a child.

Psychiatric expertise

These outlandish remarks and this incomprehensible act have raised questions among the investigating judges. The magistrates asked two panels of psychiatric experts to look into the young woman’s case. The first concluded, in November 2022, that at the time of the events, Dahbia B. was not suffering from “any psychological or neuropsychiatric disorder that had abolished or impaired her discernment”. It stressed that “on a social level (and not on a psychiatric level), her dangerousness should attract all the attention”. A second psychiatric assessment concluded, in January 2024, that there was “manipulative behavior related to a pathological personality or a strategy, and not a major psychiatric pathology”.

For the Paris prosecutor’s office, there is no doubt: Dahbia B. “had every intention of killing Lola” when she dragged her by force into her sister’s apartment. Her final indictment, revealed by RMCstresses that the victim was subjected to a “wave of physical and sexual violence”, in “an obvious logic of humiliation”. A detail, found on Lola’s body, demonstrates his “desire” to “deny any humanity” to the pre-adolescent, writes the prosecution: “the inscription of two numbers, 0 and 1, written in red varnish under the arch of the little girl’s foot”.

Me Alexandre Silva, lawyer for Dahbia B., did not wish to comment on the information.

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