This photograph show the moment a lady allegedly opened a suitcase in a busy bar containing a 12-year-old girl she raped and killed.
Dahbia Benkired, 27, was captured by CCTV sitting in a bar on Rue Manin in Paris, France, just hours after allegedly torturing and murdering schoolgirl Lola Daviet in a case that shocked France three years ago.
On the primary day of her trial for murder yesterday, jurors were shown footage of the Algerian national chatting to a person across a table, while sitting in a booth with two large pieces of bags – one next to her and the opposite on the ground.
Dahbia appears to point on the container on the ground and barely lifts the lid, revealing its contents to the person opposite her.
This motion prompts the person to peek inside before swiftly standing up. It’s unknown if he knew what was contained in the case.
The video was released by the Paris Assize Court, where prosecutors claim the box contained Lola’s body, reports French newspaper Le Parisien.
Prosecutors also told the court that Lola was returning home from school before Benkired lured her into an apartment.
It was alleged that Benkired forced the young girl to undress, wash and perform a sex act ‘for my pleasure’ after Lola’s mother refused to present her a constructing key.
They said the 27-year-old used scissors and a box cutter to injure the girl before binding her body and face with duct tape, leaving her to die from asphyxiation.
The schoolgirl was ‘vaginally and anally penetrated’ while she was still alive, and her head partially severed, health workers told the court.
Under French law, any act of sexual penetration commited by violence, coercion, threats or deceit, is classed as rape. In English law, the crime must involve penetration with a penis without consent.
Benkired allegedly dragged the schoolgirl’s body through the streets of Paris in a plastic suitcase.
The girl’s family left the courtroom in tears after disturbing pictures of her injured and taped-up body were shown in court.
Lola’s mother, Delphine, spoke in court, calling for ‘justice’ while her brother, Thibault, urged the accused to ‘tell the entire truth… to all of France and to us’.
In court, Benkired asked the family for forgiveness and said: ‘What I did was horrible and I regret it’.
Benkired arrived in France on the age of 14 and had overstayed her student visa.
In August 2022, she was ordered to depart the country after failing to comply with an expulsion notice.
The murder sparked heated political debate in France over the country’s immigration enforcement, with many calling for tougher laws.
If convicted, Benkired could face life imprisonment for raping and murdering a baby.
Her trial is predicted to last until October 24.
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