Unable to live with the tragic loss of his daughter, the father of 12-year-old Lola, who was brutally tortured, raped and murdered in France 3 years ago. After the death of his child, Johan Davier, died “from his grief” as revealed by his wife and mother of the bereaved minor.
The case that shocked France happened in October 2022. In the trial for the murder of the unfortunate Lola Davier, the Algerian Dhabia Benkired – the woman who raped, tortured and stabbed the minor 38 times, was sentenced yesterday (24.10.2025) by the French justice in “truly lifelong» and thus became the first woman against whom it was imposed in this country the maximum penalty.
Speaking in court on Wednesday, Lola’s devastated mother Delphine Davier told how her husband, who had given up drinking in the wake of his child’s death, he started drinking again the day their daughter died.
“He drank from morning till night,” she said. “He died of grief“, destroyed by “his demons“, he added. Lola’s father, died in February 2024. In fact, before he died, Johan had hanged himself a letter on the apartment door of Benkired, where he is said to have tortured and murdered the young girl.
“My love, I still don’t understand why there has been so much hardness and barbarity towards you, for being so good.” “I can’t wait to see you again,” she wrote in the note. “Your dad, who loves you forever“, he wrote in the letter.
Six days of hearings failed to clarify the real motivations and overall processes that led Benkired to commit her crimes.
What the 27-year-old testified
Dabia Benkired, shocked the court throughout her testimony in court. The 27-year-old described the crime against the 12-year-old stating that “I was thinking that I wanted to hurt someone».
In fact, he said that he spotted the 12-year-old on the street and had already decided that he would hurt her. “I passed a woman with her baby. And then Lola. I asked her to open the door of the house for mebecause I didn’t have an access card. I spoke to her to ask her to open the door for me,” Benkired told the court.
Lola then allegedly helped the woman to carry the bags her in her apartment. The woman then pulled Lola’s hand to put her in the elevator that led to her apartment, while she begged her not to disturb her. The then 27-year-old he hit his head of the 12-year-old against a wall, and proceeded to sexually abuse the child.
After claiming that forced Lola to perform sexual acts on her, the defendant said he then “started beating her” because she was “afraid she would tell her family.” “All the hate I had inside, I took it out on her… Either way, I knew he was going to die,” he stressed.
“It’s not that I wanted to kill her, but that I wanted to hurt someone. But since I had raped her, I had better kill her,” said Benkired. After the murder, Benkired bound the child with duct tape and he put her body in a suitcase.
Benkired then allegedly dragged her body across the city of Paris in a plastic suitcase, before dumping it on the street, where it was found by a homeless man.
However, CCTV footage, shown in court earlier, showed the moment Benkired allegedly opened a suitcase containing the girl’s body, while in a bar, a few hours after the murder.
Following the shocking confessions, Delphine pleaded with the courts to “do whatever is necessary to ensure that this person is jailed lifelong“, adding: “Do not give her anything but life imprisonment».