He is implicated by six ex-partners. The rapper Moha La Squale will be tried by the Paris criminal court for violence by a spouse or kidnapping committed against his former partners, but he was the subject of a dismissal concerning accusations of sexual assault and rape.
The 29-year-old rapper, real name Mohamed Bellahmed, will appear for charges against six ex-partners, according to the referral order signed by a Parisian investigating judge on March 14. However, the charges of rape and sexual assault against him, denounced by two of the complainants, were dismissed. An appeal was filed by lawyers for one of the civil parties so that the facts could be reclassified as criminal, indicated two sources close to the case.
“As could be expected, this case, which is a media creation, collapsed on a legal level,” said the defendant’s lawyer, Me Elise Arfi. “There remain a few residual prosecution facts, which are in any case totally contested,” she continued. “My client is not and has never been a sexual assaulter. I don’t know how he will be able to return to normal life after so many ordeals, but I hope he will manage to resume his career where things suddenly stopped.”
No “material element”
The rapper was indicted in June 2021 for sexual assault and violence against ex-partners. In July 2022, he was also indicted for rape, a criminal classification, against another ex-partner. But in the “absence of material evidence to support” these latest accusations, the investigating judge decided to dismiss the case on this aspect.
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In her prescription, she emphasizes on the other hand that he is “described by his successive companions as cyclothymic, impulsive, immature, capricious and angry”, traits “probably strongly accentuated by excessive consumption of cannabis”, which are registered “on a paranoid and jealous terrain.” “The combination of these factors led to marked psychological violence against his companions”, sometimes accompanied by “physical acts”, with “slaps, hair pulling, strangling or even suffocation with a pillow”. observes the magistrate.
“The suffering of my client was heard by the courts,” declared Me Antonin Gravelin-Rodriguez, lawyer for one of the complainants, “deeply marked”. “We hope that justice will be served quickly to allow him to definitively turn this page,” he added.