France, Oct. 25 -- A French court has sentenced an Algerian woman to life imprisonment without parole for raping, torturing and murdering a schoolgirl in Paris, making her the first woman to receive this maximum sentence.

Dahbia Benkired was handed an "irreducible life sentence" for killing 12-year-old Lola Daviet in Paris in 2022.

The case caused outrage and sparked anti-immigration fervour in France because the woman did not have the right to be in the country.

The sentence is the harshest under the French penal code and does not allow for parole or a reduction in sentence.

"We believed in justice and we got it," said Lola's mother, Delphine Daviet following the verdict. Heaviest possible sentence

Benkired, now aged 27, was detaine...