A prosecutor requested Dahbia Benkired be jailed for life

A prosecutor requested Dahbia Benkired be jailed for life

 Benoit PEYRUCQ

A French court on Friday sentenced an Algerian woman accused of raping, torturing and murdering a schoolgirl in Paris to life imprisonment without possibility of early release -- making her the first woman to receive this maximum punishment.

Dahbia Benkired was found guilty of killing 12-year-old Lola Daviet in the French capital in 2022, in a case that horrified the country and sparked anti-immigration fervour because the woman did not have the right to be in France. 

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