Dahbia B.’s statements, psychiatric assessments and medical opinions finally led the Paris public prosecutor’s office to request a trial at the assizes for murder accompanied by rape, torture or acts of barbarity, against the main accused.
The Paris prosecutor’s office has issued its final indictment regarding the murder of 12-year-old Lola, which shocked the whole of France two years ago. On October 15, 2022, the girl’s body was found in a suitcase in the 19th arrondissement of the capital. A trial at the assizes against the main accused, Dahbia B., for murder accompanied by rape, torture or acts of barbarity has finally been requested announcement RMCthis Monday, September 16, 2024, after consulting a 90-page document. A crime punishable by life imprisonment. According to the prosecution, Dahbia B., 26, “had every intention of killing Lola.”
“I realized I had killed someone”
Last January, a counter-psychiatric assessment confirmed that Dahbia B.’s discernment was neither abolished nor impaired when she raped, tortured and killed Lola, according to information from BFMTV. “She acknowledges the facts alleged but has difficulty identifying the motivations (…) I don’t know why I wrote ‘zero’ and ‘one’ on her feet with red nail polish. I left a drop of blood. I realized that I had killed someone (…) I had no goal in doing that… In hindsight, I understood that it had done me good,” the experts indicated in the report, recounting a discussion with the suspect at the time. Dahbia B. was therefore conscious at the time of the events, an element that may explain the indictment delivered by the Paris prosecutor’s office, namely a murder trial.
A tendency towards “deception” and “manipulation” for experts
Could Dahbia B.’s act be linked to her cannabis addiction? Can drug use lead to “psychiatric decompression” and partly explain an act? “No,” according to the experts. “We have not found any evidence that would show that the person concerned may have suffered from an acute psychiatric disorder revealed by cannabis use at the time of the events,” we could read in the columns of BFMTV last March. The act is therefore linked to the young woman’s “personality.”
His remarks, which had taken on an almost mystical tone – claiming to have the impression that Lola was “a ghost” and a “sheep” before her act – clearly did not convince the psychiatrists. As RMC indicates, it was rather his “tendency towards deception, manipulation and perversity”, as well as the two psychiatric assessments that led to his “full responsibility” during the events, as did the medical opinions in the case.