Overview
- The Paris criminal court on October 24 convicted Dahbia Benkired of raping, torturing and murdering 12-year-old Lola and imposed réclusion criminelle à perpétuité incompressible with a permanent ban from French territory.
- The incompressible life term, reported as a first for a woman in France, makes any sentence reduction impossible before 30 years at minimum.
- Lola’s family attended the six-day proceedings and, after the verdict, publicly thanked the justice system while noting that some questions remain.
- The victim’s mother said she chose an open trial so the country could grasp the tragedy’s scale and described the defendant’s lack of visible emotion in court.
- The statutory appeal period is still running, and the family has expressed hope that no appeal will be filed.