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The long-awaited trial of Dahbia Benkired began in France on Friday, Oct. 17

Benkired, 27, is accused of killing 12-year-old Lola Daviet in 2022

Benkired opened the trial by apologizing and asking the victim's family for forgiveness, according to reports

The long-awaited trial for the murder of 12-year-old Lola Daviet in France began with a shocking apology.

Dahbia Benkired, who stands accused of luring Lola into her sister’s apartment before torturing, raping and killing the girl, immediately confessed and apologized to the Daviet family on Friday, Oct. 17 — asking forgiveness as she faces a possible life sentence in the coming days, according to several reports.

“What I did was horrible,” Benkired, now 27, said in her first words to the Paris Assize Court on Friday,

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