Paris, Oct 17, 2025 (AFP) - France tries woman for rape and murder of schoolgirl

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2025-10-17

An Algerian woman went on trial in France Friday accused of raping, torturing and murdering a 12-year-old girl in Paris in a case that horrified the country. Dahbia Benkired, now aged 27, was detained after Lola Daviet went missing in the northeast of the capital three years ago, and her body was then found in a trunk in the lobby of the building where her father and mother worked as caretakers. Conservative and far-right politicians seized on th......

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