Overview

• The cour d'assises de Paris is set to try Dahbia Benkired over six days on counts of murder, aggravated rape, torture and acts of barbarity, offenses that carry a possible life sentence.
• Investigators say surveillance footage shows the suspect approaching Lola in her building before later being seen with luggage, including a large trunk later used to conceal the body.
• A forensic reconstruction cited by reporters describes sexual assault, multiple blows with scissors and a cutter, adhesive wrapped over the victim’s face, and death by asphyxia.
• Police records reported by Le Parisien state three officers entered the residence at 23:19 on 14 October 2022 after a homeless man alerted them to a body in a trunk at the building.
• Lola’s father, Johan Daviet, who died on 23 February 2024 at 49 after a relapse into alcohol, will be absent from the parties civiles, with relatives and the family lawyer describing a death driven by grief.