Woman Says Husband ‘Died From Grief’ After 12-Year-Old Daughter Raped, Beheaded By Migrant

The mother of Lola Daviet, a 12-year-old French girl who was kidnapped, raped, and beheaded by a migrant from Algeria, said her husband “died of grief” after their daughter’s murder.

The horrific crime occurred in France in October 2022. Lola’s mother testified at trial last week that her husband, Johan, began drinking heavily after her killing and was tormented by “his demons.” Johan died in February 2024.

Dhabia Benkired, 27, is the first woman in French history to receive a life sentence in prison. Benkired was working as a prostitute and had overstayed her student visa when she decided to commit murder after getting in a fight with her boyfriend.

Benkired admitted that she told herself, “I’m going to hurt someone,” and picked Lola as her target. She lured the young girl into her apartment by having her help carry a suitcase. She proceeded to sexually assault her, saying the little girl begged, “Madam, please don’t hurt me,” and sounded “scared,” per The Daily Mail. 

“All the hatred I had inside me, I took it out on her… Either way, I knew she was going to die,” Benkired said during her testimony. “It’s not that I wanted to kill her, but that I wanted to hurt someone. But since I had raped her, I might as well kill her.”

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Lola had 38 stab wounds and was both vaginally and anally penetrated. Her cause of death was determined as asphyxia.

Benkired stuffed Lola’s mutilated and partially decapitated body into a plastic trunk and walked around Paris with it, including taking it into a restaurant, before she abandoned it in the lobby of the apartment complex where it was discovered by a homeless man.

The convicted murderer apologized for her “horrible actions” at the trial, saying, “I know I killed a baby, an angel.”

Before he died, Johan had hung a letter on the door of Benkired’s apartment addressed to his murdered child.

“My darling, I still don’t understand why there was so much cruelty and barbarity towards you, you who were so kind,” the letter said. “I can’t wait to see you again. Your dad, who loves you for life.”