In the Moha La Squale case, justice in slow motion

Thursday March 18, Paris judicial court. Mohamed Bellahmed, alias Moha La Squale, appears for “contempt”, “rebellion” and “refusal to comply”. In June 2020, the rapper was arrested in the streets of Paris, while he was targeted by a search warrant, after having engaged in an urban rodeo a month earlier.

At the beginning of spring, at the correctional hearing, he denies the beatings and insults that the police say they received, but said to himself “Sorry about everything that happened”. The prosecutor demands ten months in prison, estimating “Intolerable” that the accused “Poses as a victim of the police services”. The judgment was reserved on April 15, and Mohamed Bellahmed left as he had arrived, free.

Reported by the press, the episode ulcerated Me Thibault Stumm. Because soon ” seven months “ that this lawyer waits for the rapper, accused of domestic violence by several of his ex-girlfriends and targeted by several complaints since September 2020, to finally be heard on this subject by justice. If several witnesses were heard at the beginning of the year, this was however still not the case of the main concerned, according to several sources close to the case. Contacted, the Paris prosecutor’s office did not wish to answer on this specific point. Solicited by The world, Me Elise Arfi, the rapper’s lawyer, did not want to speak on the subject.

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At the end of January, to speed up this dragging file, four young women, through their lawyer, Mr.e Thibault Stumm, had filed a complaint with the constitution of civil party in order to obtain the opening of a judicial investigation and the appointment of an investigating judge. “We are talking about a subject, that of domestic violence, on which the government has been communicating every week for years, and yet, seven months after the complaints for serious facts, the respondent has still not been heard, strangles Me Stumm. It’s too long, it’s not normal. My clients are discreet, wait, but they feel abandoned, and it is time for justice to take an interest in their cases. “ As of March 26, no judicial information had yet been opened.

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After the revelation, early September 2020 by Point, from the opening of a preliminary investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office targeting him for “violence”, “sexual assault” and “kidnapping”, Moha La Squale had been rather discreet, at first. The 25-year-old rapper, carried in 2018 by the success of his first album, Bendero, had initially deserted the media as the social networks, pushing back indefinitely the release of his second album.

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