While he was indicted on January 17 for manslaughter and held in pre-trial detention since that date, MHD still awaiting trial date for this matter and may soon be free.
According to the law in “Criminal matter, the initial period of pre-trial detention is one year, this period may be extended by a period of 6 months, 2 times when a sentence less than or equal to 20 years is incurred and 4 times in others case”, MHD could therefore be released from prison on January 17, 2020 because a period of pre-trial detention cannot exceed one more year the evidence against the French rapper weakens over time.
Indeed according to the Sunday Journal, MHD should be released soon because during the investigation, the evidence seems to weaken the only witness who claimed to have seen the rapper near the crime scene has been missing for two months, the French weekly newspaper also revealed that his lawyers Elise Arfi and Eric Dupond-Moretti are going to plead at the beginning of January for his release under judicial supervision pending the trial.
Mohammed Sylla whose real name was placed in pre-trial detention as part of an investigation into the murder of a 23-year-old young man in Paris who had been attacked by several dozen individuals on the night of 5 July 6, 2018.
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