France – Saad Lamjarred was sentenced to six years in prison for rape

24.02.2023

After hours of deliberation, the court said it was “convinced” that the rape had occurred, “which was consistently and accurately described” by the civil plaintiff in the case, Laura B. To issue an order to imprison Saad just because it means that he will be imprisoned..Just received the sentence with a pale face.

On Friday (February 24, 20203), the Criminal Court in Paris sentenced Moroccan star Saad Lamjarred to six years in prison, for raping and beating a young woman in a hotel room in the French capital in October 2016.

After seven hours of deliberations, the court said it was “convinced” that the rape had occurred, “which was consistently and accurately described” by the civil plaintiff in the case, Laura B.

A detention order was issued, which means that Saad Lamjarred He will be sent to prison immediately.

And when the verdict was read out in the courtroom, which was filled with fans of the artist and the curious, Saad Lamjarred got up with a pale face, but he did not react, and on the bench of the prosecution, Laura B. hugged. Her mother cried for a long time.

Facts reported by Laura B. To October 2016 when the young woman was twenty years old. Laura points out that she was followed The well-known star in the Arab world And two friends of his to a party after they met inside a nightclub. At the end of the evening, in which a large amount of alcohol and cocaine had been consumed, I accompanied Lamjarred to his hotel on the Champs-Elysées.

As for the court, there is no doubt that the plaintiff joined her merely “voluntarily” with the intention of “flirting,” according to the president of the court, Frederick Allen.

In the room, they danced and talked, before the singer “suddenly” turned into a violent person, as he raped and beat her, according to the plaintiff’s account before the court.

As for Saad Lamjarred, he vehemently denies having sex in any way with the plaintiff, and admits that as a natural “reaction” he “forcefully pushed Laura B.’s face,” after she suddenly “scratched” him while they were undressing, according to what the court president recalled during the reading of the decision. Considering that the “changing and changing statements” of the 37-year-old singer were not credible.

Attorneys for Laura B. “With an important decision consistent with reality,” says lawyer Jean-Marc Deskoubis.

As for the defence, Thierry Herzog, one of Saad Lamjarred’s lawyers, indicated that they needed to “think” before “taking any decision regarding the next steps” in terms of appealing the verdict or not.

The singer has been accused several times of committing rape in similar circumstances. It is expected that he will be tried, especially before the Criminal Court in the French Var region, on charges of raping a young woman in his hotel room in 2018, after he met her in a nightclub in the city of Saint-Tropez.

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