His lawyer, Me Mehani, spoke in the press, indicating that the facts were “disputedby his client, indicted for concealment of a corpse.
He is one of the protagonists of the tragic news item that has shaken France for a week: Rachid N., 43, was indicted on Monday by the Paris prosecutor’s office for “concealment of corpse“. He is accused of having transported in his car the body of little Lola in a trunk after her murder. His lawyer, Me Khalida Mehani, broke the silence, speaking in The Parisian then on the set of BFMTV, saying that he “was unawarewhat was in the trunk.
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On Friday October 14, Dahbia B. contacted him at the end of the afternoon to ask him to pick her up at her sister’s home, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. The latter had just kicked her out according to her words, reports The Parisian . He transported her with two suitcases and a heavy trunk, in which was the girl’s body, to the home of Rachid N., residing in Asnières-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine). They would have spent a few hours at his apartment, before Dahbia left with his luggage, aboard a VTC Heetch ordered by Rachid N. During this time, he certifies that he never knew what was in the trunk. . The individual claims today to have been trapped by this woman, whom he had known for three years and with whom he had a brief history.
“Devastated, stunned”
Still according to our colleagues, Rachid N. explains that he never smelled the smell of bleach described by the man who later found the body. Placed in police custody last Saturday, he was indicted and then released under judicial supervision. The 40-year-old has, according to his lawyer, no mention in his criminal record. “He was unaware of what could be in this trunk“, indicated Me Khalida Mehani to the Parisian. “As it stands, the facts are disputed on the part of my client, she continued this Saturday morning on the set of BFMTV. For an offense to be characterized, two elements must be met: the material element as well as an intentional element. The agent must act knowingly and conscientiously“, she recalled.
His client today is “stunned, stunned. On the one hand, because the case is dramaturgy, of unprecedented violence. On the other hand because his name is linked to this macabre event.“Friday evening, in Fouquereuil, in Pas-de-Calais, dozens of anonymous people paid tribute to Lola, kidnapped, tortured and then killed on Friday in Paris. The main suspect, Dahbia B., was indicted for murder of a 15-year-old minor accompanied by rape, torture or acts of barbarism, rape of a minor with torture and acts of barbarism, then placed in pre-trial detention at the Fresnes stop. The girl’s funeral will take place on Monday afternoon in Lilles, in Pas-de-Calais.
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