The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed, on Tuesday, October 29, the referral for rape to the departmental criminal court of the rapper Naps, suspected of having raped a young woman while she was sleeping in the fall of 2021, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned. from judicial source. The investigative chamber of the Court of Appeal also kept him under judicial supervision, the same source stated.
“Naps will appear at his trial with complete serenity, with the same state of mind that he had during the investigation”said his lawyer Nabil Boudi, contacted by AFP.
The council had appealed the order issued by an investigating judge in May: the magistrate ordered that the perpetrator of the coup The KiffanceThe man, very followed on social networks with a million subscribers on his Instagram account, will be tried for rape.
Other investigations in progress
This case began with a complaint in October 2021. “A young woman explained that she had spent the afternoon of the previous day in an establishment on 9th Street.my municipality “ from the capital, then “to be invited with friends to the rapper’s table”according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
“Then they followed him to his room in a hotel near the Gare de Lyon, where the rapper’s friends were gradually abandoned”. “The young women had fallen asleep and one said that she was woken up by a sexual relationship that she had not consented to”the prosecution continued.
Other investigations also focus on Naps, whose real name is Nabil Boukhobza, in Var: three women filed complaints against him and the singer was accused in August of rape and sexual assault.
On a criminal level, the world of French rap has been marked by several cases of sexual violence, with a strong media impact.
Moha La Squale, whose first album, benderoHe had gone gold in 2018, was accused of rape and sexual assault in a judicial investigation, but ultimately benefited from a dismissal of the case. The former star, whose real name is Mohamed Bellahmed, was also sentenced in early July by the Paris Criminal Court to four years in prison, one of them suspended, for domestic violence, kidnapping and death threats against six ex-partners. . .
Rapper Lomepal is the subject of a preliminary investigation in Paris. At least three women have filed rape complaints against him. The thirty-year-old, whose real name is Antoine Valentinelli, denies it. Arrested by police in early March and confronted by two of the complainants, he was released without having been prosecuted for the time being. The investigations continue.
