VALERY HACHE / AFP French singer Nabil Boukhobza aka ‘Naps’, here on November 20, 2021.
VALERY HACHE / AFP
French singer Nabil Boukhobza aka ‘Naps’, here on November 20, 2021.
JUSTICE – Marseille rapper Naps, already suspected in a rape case in 2021, was indicted this Sunday, August 4 for “ rape and sexual assault » following complaints from three young adults in the Var, announced the Toulon public prosecutor’s office.
Arrested on Friday in a hotel in the seaside resort of Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, the author of the hit “ The kiffance » was placed under judicial supervision and denies the facts with which he is accused, said Laurent Robert, the deputy prosecutor. The investigation was entrusted to the La Valette-du-Var Research Brigade and will continue on the basis of a rogatory commission from the investigating judge.
Nabil Boukhobza, his real name, is already suspected of having raped a young woman in her sleep in the fall of 2021. In this case, the investigating judge ordered, in a decision rendered in mid-May and of which AFP became aware at the end of July, that the rapper be tried before the departmental criminal court of Paris.
The victim in question had filed a complaint with the Rueil-Malmaison police station in Hauts-de-Seine in October 2021. She had stated that she had spent the previous evening in a nightclub in the 9th arrondissement. Then ” having been invited with friends to the table of the rapper Naps »according to the prosecution. The young woman then allegedly continued the night with him in a hotel near Gare de Lyon. He then allegedly sexually assaulted her without her being able to push him away, all “ his limbs being paralyzed”.
The 32-year-old rapper, who has a huge following on social media with a million subscribers to his Instagram account, “ contests in full » et « with the greatest firmness” the accusations brought against him in this first case, his lawyer Nabil Boudi had assured AFP. He appealed the order of the investigating magistrate requesting a trial
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