On the fourth day of Dahbia Benkired's trial for the murder of 12-year-old Lola Daviet, the accused admitted raping and killing the girl as revenge against her ex-partner. The victim's family shared their profound grief, while a psychologist described psychopathic traits in the accused. Lola's mother demanded a life sentence.
On October 22, 2025, at the Paris Assizes, the fourth day of Dahbia Benkired's trial focused on her psychological profile and testimonies from Lola's family. The psychologist, who met the accused three times between late November 2022 and mid-February 2023, noted 'emotional and affective coldness' and 'high-level psychopathic traits'. He suggested the murder may stem from an 'unacknowledged' rape, followed by silencing the victim. Dahbia Benkired, a 27-year-old Algerian, showed a psychoaffective development marked by deficiencies, including childhood paternal violence and parental deaths in 2019 and 2020.
Questioned, the accused explained encountering Lola on October 14, 2022, fifteen minutes after heated messages with her ex-partner Mustapha M. 'I had too much hate in me and I wanted to let it out, I took the first person I saw', she stated. She admitted: 'I said to myself: “Since I raped her, might as well kill her”'. She denied certain wounds, like the near-decapitating neck injury, and limited her stabs to two in the back, despite 38 lesions recorded. Lola died asphyxiated by gray scotch tape around her face, after 1 hour and 37 minutes of ordeal.
Family testimonies were heartbreaking. Delphine Daviet-Ropital, the mother, described her daughter as 'joyful, social, loving' and demanded: 'I ask justice to lock this thing up for life'. Her son Thibault, 20, expressed guilt: 'She made an entire family cry'. Lola's father died of a heart attack in February 2024, overwhelmed by grief. Cousins paid tribute to Lola, recalling joyful moments like the magic of Santa Claus. A video reconstruction from February 2024 was shown, depicting the accused reenacting the abuses on a mannequin.
The accused, detained in Fresnes, minimized the acts and showed little empathy, though she wrote a letter regretting the father's death. The trial resumes the next day with psychiatric experts.