Overview
- The Paris Assize Court found Benkired guilty of raping, torturing, and murdering 12-year-old Lola Daviet and imposed the maximum sentence of irreducible life imprisonment.
- The rarely used sanction bars ordinary sentence reductions and has never before been applied to a woman in France.
- Jurors cited the exceptional cruelty of the crimes, with medico-legal findings of multiple sexual assaults, dozens of wounds, asphyxiation with tape, and the body left in a trunk.
- Court-appointed psychiatrists excluded a disorder that would diminish responsibility and flagged a high risk of reoffending, aligning with the prosecution’s call to protect society.
- Benkired has ten days to appeal, and the sentence includes a definitive ban from French territory.