French court gives Algerian woman life sentence for murdering Paris schoolgirl
• Oct 24, 2025, 4:07 PM
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A French court on Friday gave an Algerian woman a life sentence without the possibility of early release for the 2022 murder of 12-year-old schoolgirl Lola Daviet, with the judge citing the "extreme cruelty" of the crime. Daviet was raped and torutured before being killed in the residential building where her parents worked as caretakers in northeast Paris.
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