Murder of Lola Daviet

On 14 October 2022, 12-year-old Lola Daviet was found dead in a travel trunk in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was subsequently established that she had been abducted, raped, and murdered, her cause of death being asphyxiation. The perpetrator, Dahbia Benkired, was recorded by a CCTV circuit leaving the building in the afternoon carrying heavy luggage, which included the suitcase holding the victim's body. Benkired, an Algerian national who had been in France illegally, was sentenced to life in prison in 2025 by the Paris cour d'assises. Daviet's father fell into alcoholism and died 16 months after his daughter's murder, at age 49.