Dahbia B. is at the heart of the Lola murder investigation. The elements discovered by the investigators on the main suspect in this case reveal an enigmatic and disturbing personality.
[Mis à jour le 21 octobre 2022 à 23h21] The psychological profile of the alleged murderer of Lola, Dahbia B. remains an enigma for the investigators. A week after the tragedy, photos and videos of the main suspect in the appalling murder of the teenager were posted on social networks showing her with filters and codes widely used by users of applications like TikTok or Snapchat . If she appears very made up, these images contrast with the first elements of the investigation concerning her profile. Indicted at the end of her police custody for “murder” and “rape with an act of torture and barbarism” of a minor under 15, this 24-year-old Algerian has since been in pre-trial detention.
The revelations of her relatives have been emerging for a few days, suggesting that, psychologically, she would not have supported the recent death of her mother from cancer in 2020. During revelations at the Parisian, published Thursday, October 20, 2022, a relative of the family of the 24-year-old young woman revealed that the suspect “was like lost. She was not in good shape, it felt”. He revealed that he felt his discomfort when talking about his mother. Testimony supported by that of a neighbor who lived near the mother and her daughters when they lived in Bry-sur-Marne, a town in Val-de-Marne. He says he detected the same change in behavior in the young woman after the death of her mother: “it was no longer the same”, he describes. This neighbor refers to heated arguments between the sisters that he allegedly overheard and declared, categorically, “that the young woman freaked out when her mother died.”
A cousin close to the family revealed on a daily basis that Dahbia B. had suffered during her childhood living in precariousness. During his meetings with the young woman he found her “lovable, calm and shy”. Characteristics that a former classmate denied, describing her as a “not really nice” person, and “arrogant” often making fun of the physique of some girls in college.
Who is Dahbia B the main suspect in Lola’s murder?
According to investigators, Dahbia B was born in Algeria in 1998 and arrived in France in 2016 via a student visa. She had since been out of work and homeless. According to BFMTV, her residence permit had expired, the young woman had also been checked by the border police, when she was planning to take a plane this summer. The young woman was then given an obligation to leave the territory (OQTF) on August 21. The 24-year-old woman lived with an acquaintance in Val-de-Marne but often came to see her sister who lived in the same building as Lola’s family.
According The Parisian, the investigators quickly identified psychiatric disorders in her, but only an expert will be able to make a diagnosis on the nature of a potential illness. Another element reported by BFMTV: the 24-year-old suspect was known to the police and justice services, for acts of domestic violence of which she was the victim in 2018. In the statement she made to the judicial police investigators, the respondent quickly mentioned his past. “I too was raped and I saw my parents die in front of me,” she told police who showed her a photo of Lola’s body, according to European 1. During an interrogation, she claimed to have raped the child, to have brutalized him, to have taped his face. The child died, according to medical reports, of asphyxiation. A few hours after this declaration, Dahbia B. reconsidered her statement, saying that she was incapable of killing a teenager.
Dahbia B, psychologically unstable?
According to testimony collected by BFM TV, a former companion of the accused described Dahbia B as being mentally disturbed. The man who claimed to have been her boyfriend said he last saw the Algerian national about ten days ago. According to him, during this last meeting “she had lost her mind a bit” specifying that she “was talking to herself, she was talking between her lips…” He added that to the question ‘what are you saying? ‘ Dahbia B replied “nothing, nothing, it’s between me and me”. Another disturbing element of this testimony, according to her former companion, the accused “was derailed in relation to religion.” During their last meeting she would have said to him: “I am going to go to the cross, I am going to be a Christian, I am going to go to church”. Asking her why, she replied: “It’s because I’m fed up, it’s good, my mother is dead, my father is dead”.
Dr. Jean-Pierre Bouchard, criminologist and psychologist, was interviewed during the 8 p.m. news on TF1 on October 18; According to him, such violence emanating from a woman is “very rare”. He added that “to see a woman, whether young or old, being accused of such cruelty, including the homicide of a child of that age” is very unusual. An opinion completed by the psychiatrist Samuel Lepaster interviewed by NEWS on the psychological profile of the young woman. For the specialist, the young woman “is not neither a sociopath nor a psychopath” but would lean on schizophrenia.
During the interrogations carried out by the police after her indictment on October 17, 2022 for “murder of a 15-year-old minor accompanied by torture or acts of barbarism”, she reportedly told the police, after examining the photos of Lola’s body: ” It doesn’t make me hot or cold.” In documents seen by AFP, after confessing and then recanting, the suspect reportedly said “having told a dream and not reality”, adding in confused words that she had defended herself “in the face of to a stabbing while indicating to have fought against a ghost”. Her older sister even said that her younger sister had “waked up at night last month during which she made incoherent remarks” reported France 3.
What are Dahbia B’s conditions of detention?
The accused was placed in pre-trial detention in Fresnes prison, located in the southern suburbs of Paris. The management of Fresnes prison immediately placed her in solitary confinement revealed the Parisian. A staff member of the women’s remand center testified to the media that Dahbia B, “arrived in the middle of the night. We left her in a room for a few hours and in the early morning we put her in a cell. where she will remain alone.” She was then received by the director of the secure establishment.
The source revealed daily that she would be constantly monitored, first of all to protect her from herself “in the event of a suicide attempt”. The isolation is also to protect her from the other inmates of the prison, “everything will be organized so that she does not meet anyone” revealed the member of the prison. Vigilance is also required vis-à-vis prison guards. The revealer has indeed specified to the Parisian daily, these preventive measures, “many of my colleagues are also mothers shocked by what happened”. Thus the staff will be “handpicked” to avoid any attack.