Ruminations: Psychopathy Strikes

"The attacker had been talking about selling organs and body parts, but none of this makes sense."
"The suspect is believed to suffer with serious psychological problems."
"She was living on the street, but had friends and family in the Paris area."
Unnamed French official

"She asked everyone she met to help her carry it. She seemed a little crazy."
"At one point she left the suitcase in front of a cafe, she came and went, went in and out, we wondered what was inside her [baggage] but we would never have thought of a body."
"Then she went to the bakery in front of the cafe to buy a croissant, she came back like it was nothing, she looked a little unsteady."
Witness

"It's unbearable. We've been living in this neighbourhood for years and we've just come here to give support to the family, in leaving a bouquet, because like many people, this breaks our hearts."
Neighbour

12-year-old Lola Daviet [@EvaVlaar/Twitter]

A young Algerian woman who arrived legally in France on a study visa in 2016 was given an August 2022 expulsion order to leave the country within 30 days, but did not. This woman, Dahbia B., 24 years of age and reportedly homeless, has been charged with the murder of a 12-year-old schoolgirl, Lola Daviet. France is in shock, and critics of the government are furious, pointing to the tragic atrocity as just another example of the failed immigration policy practised by France.

Lola Daviet's school day was over and she had returned home to the apartment building where her father worked as a janitor. Her mother, Delphine was awaiting her daughter's return from school: "Lola knows that on Fridays you go straight home because we go to Béthune, the family village, a three-hour drive north of Paris". And when her daughter failed to return as scheduled, Delphine approached police for their help in the search for her daughter.

Her father decided to view the security footage and there he saw his daughter enter the foyer of the building where he worked and where his family had their apartment. Accompanying her was a young woman whom the parents were unfamiliar with. Several hours afterward the woman left the building alone, carrying two bags, the closed circuit video camera footage made clear were quite heavy.

A day later the young woman was arrested with French media identifying her as an Algerian national. She was brought before a judge two days later, accused of murdering a child under age 15, accused as well of rape, acts of torture and of concealing a body. Under questioning, the woman said she had led the child to her sister's flat in the same building. There, she forced Lola to shower before she was sexually abused.

One witness early in the investigation suggested that organ trafficking might be involved, although the suspect made no mention of that as a possible motive. Another suspect in the case, a 43-year-old man agreed under questioning that he had driven the suspect and her two suitcases along with a plastic box to his home where she stayed for two hours. Finally she was driven back with all the luggage to Lola's apartment building.

Lola's body was discovered in an abandoned plastic box outside the building. An autopsy revealed the girl died of asphyxiation. Numbers zero and one had been written on her feet in red ink. A motive for her killing remains elusive.

"The suspect had boasted about selling body parts. Evidence suggests that the girl was taken into the basement of the flat, where she was tortured, and raped, before being strangled and having her throat cut."
"The suspect is believed to suffer with serious psychological problems. She was living on the street, but had friends and family in the Paris area."
Investigating Source