Why was 12-year-old Lola killed? Four days after the discovery of the body of the teenager in a trunk, in Paris, the investigators of the criminal brigade are still trying to understand the motivations of the main suspect. Indicted Monday for “murder” and “aggravated rape”, Dahbia B. had, during her police custody, “fluctuating statements”, “oscillating between recognition and dispute of the facts”, had indicated Monday in a press release the public prosecutor of Paris, Laure Beccuau. At first, this young woman, homeless, born in Algeria, had detailed to the police the sequence of events until the death of the schoolgirl and her journey with the box containing her body. Before returning to his statements during his last hearings.
She then assured “to have told a dream and not the reality”. She also recounted having defended herself “in the face of a knife attack”, while indicating “having fought against a ghost”. According to her, it is even “impossible” that she could have killed a child. However, during her six hearings in police custody, Dahbia B. did not show empathy towards the victim. When the police showed her pictures of Lola’s body, she simply replied that it made her “neither hot nor cold”. “I too was raped and saw my parents die in front of me,” she added.
A dispute with Lola’s mother?
Before retracting, Dahbia B. had been much more verbose. She said that she “dragged the victim to her sister’s apartment, living in the same building as the child”, then “forced her to take a shower before committing sexual assaults on her and other violence resulting in death, ”reported the Paris prosecutor. According to our information, she also told the police that she had a “dispute” with the schoolgirl’s mother, who is a building caretaker with her husband. The latter would have refused to give him a Vigik pass, allowing access to the building where his older sister lives, which hosts him.
A version to which the investigators have difficulty adhering: on the search notice they published on Friday, the parents of the pre-adolescent girl claimed not to know the young woman. The suspect is said to be suffering from mental disorders, but an initial expertise carried out during her police custody concluded that there was no “imminent psychological danger”, and she was declared fit to be questioned by the investigators. In addition, she is not known to psychiatric hospitals in Ile-de-France, according to the first checks.
“Night Awakenings”
During the investigation, one or more psychiatric examinations will be carried out to determine whether or not Dahbia B. suffers from mental disorders. And if, if necessary, his discernment could have been altered or abolished during his passage to the act. Her older sister told the police that Dahbia B. had “night awakenings in the past month, during which [elle] made incoherent remarks.