Rapper MHD was sentenced on Saturday to 12 years of criminal imprisonment for the murder in 2018 of a young man in Paris as part of a settling of scores between gangs from rival cities.
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When the verdict was announced, several women in the audience, relatives of the accused, burst into tears. MHD for his part remained stoic, before hugging a crying woman. He has always maintained his innocence in this affair. The prosecution had requested 18 years of criminal imprisonment against the rapper, whose real name is Mohamed Sylla.
Five of his co-defendants, who were tried alongside him for this murderwere also sentenced to terms ranging from 10 to 18 years in prison, the maximum sentence having been imposed on a defendant who fled.
Three other men were acquitted, the court considering that one of them, Wissem E. was not on the scene at the time of the crime, and that for the two others, Saber B. and Moussa K. , she did not have sufficient evidence to convict them.
A settling of scores
On the night of July 5 to 6, 2018, Loïc K., a young man aged 23, was deliberately knocked down by a Mercedes in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, then beaten by around ten men and lacerated with blows. knives. He died, lying in his blood, a few dozen minutes after his attackers left. The car was found the next day, set on fire, in a parking lot.
At the heart of the case, a settling of scores between young people from the city of Chaufourniers, nicknamed the red city, from which the accused come, and the neighboring city of Grange aux Belles, located in the 10th and 19th arrondissements.
In this case, the rapper, who despite his success continued to frequent the city of Chaufourniers between two tours, was implicated by several witnesses who affirmed that he was at the scene of the crime, which he has contested since the beginning.
Investigators also establish that the Mercedes set on fire belonged to him and one of the videos of the scene, taken from an apartment, shows a man with dyed blond hair, wearing a Puma tracksuit. However, at that time, MHD had peroxided hair and was an ambassador for the sportswear brand.
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(With AFP)