The rapper and actor is the target of a complaint filed by the mother of his youngest son for violence according to information from Le Parisien. An investigation by the Brigade for the Protection of Minors has been opened.
JoeyStarr, whose real name is Didier Morville, is accused of having committed violence against his nine-year-old son, we learn The Parisian this Friday, July 12. According to information from the national media, which cites the Paris prosecutor’s office, a judicial investigation was opened after the complaint filed by the child’s mother and former partner of the NTM rapper and actor last Wednesday, July 10, at the Nogent-sur-Marne police station.
Le Parisien specifies, citing her deposition, that she accuses JoeyStarr (who remains presumed innocent) of having hit their child during the learning of a hygiene gesture. This former partner, a certain Irène who has remained anonymous, says that the actor and musician became angry during this episode and became violent. After a forensic examination, their son allegedly mentioned violence on the part of his father. The investigation has now been entrusted to the Brigade for the Protection of Minors. The judicial investigation is ongoing, specifies the media.
Several legal cases
This is not the first time that JoeyStarr has had a run-in with the law. He was sentenced to two months in prison in 1999 for assaulting a flight attendant. Subsequently, in 1999, he was sentenced to six months in prison for assault and battery on a former partner. He was also sentenced ten years later, in 2009, for domestic violence against the mother of his first two sons. He was sentenced to three months in prison and a fine of 2,000 euros.
JoeyStarr has also been convicted in several other cases, including assaulting a passerby in 2000, a drug case in 2001, and for hitting and spitting on mobile gendarmes in 2003.