More beautiful life, once again at the heart of legal news… On the evening of March 27, Rachid Hafassa, famous for having played Karim Fedala in the daily soap opera from 2009 to 2022, was arrested for having attacked a bus driver in Marseille. According to information reported by Provence, the actor was intoxicated when arrested. The police, for their part, had no idea of the identity of the man they had just arrested.
Rachid Hafassa was immediately taken into police custody “with his rights deferred taking into account his state of intoxication”as pointed out Le Figaro. According to an article in Le Parisien published this Tuesday, April 2, barely an hour before the writing of this article, the actor would then have been tried in immediate appearance on Friday, March 29. It would have been “found guilty of contempt against a person holding public authority based on race, ethnicity, nation or religion, of violence aggravated by two circumstances resulting in incapacity of less than 8 days and of public insult based on origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion”, as the Marseille prosecutor’s office declared to our colleagues. Rachid Hafassa was sentenced to six months in prison with a two-year probationary suspension.
Physical violence and racist insults: the bus driver filed a complaint directly after the altercation
According to information relayed by Le Figaro And Provence, Rachid Hafassa is said to have deliberately attacked the bus driver of the Régie des transports métropolitains de Marseille by hitting him several times in the face, while uttering racist insults. Aged 32 and from the Comoros, the driver was taken to Timone hospital, where he then decided to file a complaint against the actor. The incident between the two individuals took place around 8 p.m., rue d’Endoume, in the 7th arrondissement of Marseille, on bus line number 80.
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