This Saturday a gruesome crime shook French society. Four people were arrested in Paris after the body of a 12-year-old girl was found in a suitcase. Four days later the case begins to be clarified. The minor has been identified as Lola Davis. And the investigations of the Police are now focused on a single suspect: Dahbia B., a woman of Algerian origin, as the alleged perpetrator of the crime. She has already been arrested.
Despite being practically resolved, the event is far from over and is now opening new debates in France. The case of little Lola‘the girl with the suitcase’, has fueled claims from the far right to toughen immigrationwhile the Macron government criticizes the politicization of the episode.
The Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmaninassured this Tuesday during an interview with the radio RTL that “there is a lot of indecency” in some positions, when asked about the comments made by leaders of the extreme right such as Marine LePen (National Group) or Eric Zemmour, the leader of the ultra Reconquête party! (Reconquest).
De nationalité algérienne et en situation irregulière, c’est officiel: l’assassin de #Lola n’aurait jamais dû croiser sa route. Encore une fois. #francocide
— Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) October 17, 2022
“When will we defend our children from these ‘francocides’ who always commit the samealways to the detriment of them?” Zemmour wrote this Monday on his Twitter account following the death of 12-year-old little Lola.
Environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau has given her “full support to Lola’s family and those close to her”, and has criticized Zemmour, reminding her that “francocide does not exist”. “Murderers cannot be reduced to a skin color, a religion or a nationality, unless we fall into the lowest of human nature,” according to statements collected by The Figaro.
[La asesina de la niña Lola en París declara que la violó y torturó con un cuchillo y luego se retracta]
The debate was also reproduced in the National Assembly on Tuesday, during a session of questions and answers to the Government.
The Conservative MP Eric Pauget (The Republicans) reproached the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Morettithat due to the “laxity” of the government’s immigration policies, a girl had been “martyred”, “raped” and “murdered” by an illegal immigrant who should not have been in French territory.
“Using a 12-year-old girl’s coffin like a trampoline is a disgrace”Dupond-Moretti replied.
Marine Le Pen, for her part, questioned the Prime Minister, Elizabeth Borneaffirming that “once again” the person responsible for a crime should not have been in the country and demanded urgent measures from the Government. “Too many crimes and misdemeanors are committed by clandestine immigrants that they have not wanted or have not been able to send to their countries,” said the leader of the French extreme right.
“A little decency and respect the pain of the family,” Borne replied.
Who is Dahbia B.?
The newspaper Le Monde reports that the alleged murderer, Dahbia B., is a 24-year-old woman, born in Algeria in 1998, who arrived in France legally in 2016 with a student residence permit. Two years later, in 2018, she was a victim of domestic violence and thus she became part of the Police files. Dahbia B. She was “unknown to the Police except for the fact that she was a victim of domestic violence,” the Minister of Justice, Dupond-Moretti, alleged before the deputies.
[Las incógnitas en torno a la muerte de Lola en París, hallada en una maleta: la sospechosa, a prisión]
On August 21, she was arrested at a French airport because her residence permit had expired., according to the aforementioned newspaper. It was then that the obligation to leave the territory (an OQTF order, for its acronym in French) was imposed on him. Having no criminal record, she was not placed in any administrative detention center. She and she were released on the condition that they return to Algeria within 30 days.
Dahbia B. had no home, no job, and no financial resources when she was detained. Faced with this situation, she stayed at the house of an acquaintance who lived in the Marne Valley (on the Ile de France). And she occasionally shared a flat with her sister, who lives in the same building as Lola’s family, in the 19th district of Paris.
far right organization Institute for Justice has called a demonstration Thursday in Paris to protest the “murder of Lola and hundreds of innocents” over the years. Politicians of the French radical right What jordan bardella (aspiring to succeed Marine Le Pen at the head of the National Association) or Zemmour himself have already confirmed their presence.
I begged him for #Lola n’est pas un “fait-divers”. C’est un fait politique.
The track du « déséquilibré » avancée pour anesthésier notre colère ne passe plus.
D’autres choix politiques en matière sécuritaire et migratoire auraient permis d’éviter cet acte barbare #JusticePourLola pic.twitter.com/soGpBdpThF— Laurence Trochu (@LaurenceTrochu) October 17, 2022
In parallel, the president Emmanuel Macron He received the parents of the murdered minor on Tuesday and conveyed “all his solidarity and support,” according to public radio. FranceInfo.
a macabre crime
The body of the young Lola was found last Friday in the 19th district of Paris, inside a suitcase, after her family reported that she had not returned home after finishing classes at school.
Some details leaked by the press suggest that the crime was committed under very macabre circumstances, which has shocked the country. The defendant coldly recounted the torture to which she subjected the victim before ending her life, in part irreproducible, and later she retracted, assuring that it was a dream.
[Cuatro detenidos en París tras aparecer el cuerpo de una menor en una maleta]
“I grabbed her by the hair, I put her head between her legs (…), I had an orgasm”. Before retracting her words, Dahbia detailed a rape, or that she listened to music and drank coffee before stabbing the little girl. Also, that she drank her blood in a bottle, but investigators have been unable to find any evidence that the crime was committed exactly like that.
According to local media, the woman who committed the crime was a victim of domestic violence in 2018 and has mental health problems.
