Justice delivered its verdict on Friday, February 10. Keneff Leauva was sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment for the murder of Mamadi Touré, whom he had stabbed three times.
On April 11, 2021, in Pantin, Keneff Leauva’s life changed. That day, Firmine Richard’s son stabbed a certain Madami Touré several times. As Le Parisien had indicated two days later, he had been “charged with murder and remanded in custody. Keneff Leauva is accused of having stabbed more than ten times a man with whom he allegedly had ‘a disagreement on social networks'”, explained a police source. Since February 3, Keneff Leauva was tried before the Assize Court of Seine-Saint-Denis, which delivered its verdict on Friday February 10. He was sentenced to 19 years in prison, with obligation of caresix years less than the original sentence. The premeditation has been dismissed and it is the murder in recidivism which was retained. Accustomed to social networks, Keneff Leauva spent most of his time there, even going so far as to threaten to cut the throat of anyone who approached his home. On April 11 in the morning, he returned with a bloody face and, during his trial, he provided details: “Someone came to get me, I defended myself. Now he is in Avicenne, the Bobigny hospital“he remembers telling his mother, who later helped him.
During his trial, Keneff Lauvea was able to count on the presence of his mother. In front of the judges, Firmine Richard evoked the facts. After her son said he fought back, she recalled seeing the knife lying on his bed. Firmine Richard grabbed it, before going to wash it. “I put it in my garden. I couldn’t see him anymore. I didn’t throw it away“, she explains to the president of the court before continuing: “Not for a moment did I think that this gentleman was dead. I can tell you 25 times if you want sir.” When judges try to make her lose her footing, the actress does not budge. “You spot the tip of the knife in his jeans…”, says Master Szpiner before being cut by Firmine Richard. “So tell me ? No need to have done Maths sup to know that Mamadi Touré was injured. It makes sense, my son told me he is in Avicenna”. Since the start of this affair, Firmine Richard has never hesitated to support her son publicly. “I know my son is maturing. I know he’s not a killer”, she said during the trial. Facing Jordan de Luxe a few weeks earlier, she said: “I have nothing to be ashamed of”she said before adding: “My son is in prison and it is true that for me it is very hard to live. But I have to live, I have to survive just for him.” Confidences in complete transparency.
Keneff Lauvea: had he already been sentenced by the courts?
Keneff Lauvea is a regular on social networks who had already been noticed by the courts. In 2017, he had traveled 700 km to fight with a user of the social network Periscope. He had been sentenced to two years in prison, including one year suspended for homophobic violence. Four years later, it was on a new platform that he got confused with a surfer. However, on this one, the goal was to multiply the clashes in order to earn money. “If Leauva stops clashing, he is excluded from the family. This is how we exist“, explained Alice Dubernet, the general counsel. During his trial, the psychiatric expert indicated that Keneff Lauvea was “in a confusion between reality and virtual world. Social networks have become a substitute universe to compensate for narcissistic shortcomings“reports the Parisian.