Rapper Baby Gang remains in prison, 'he is not a drug addict'

(ANSA) - MILAN, JAN 13 - The use of "cannabinoids" in this case is not "qualified as an addiction in the strict sense but rather an expression of a lifestyle" common "to the enormous majority of those who are part of the world of trappers. meeting places such as Corso Como" and likewise the "consumption of alcohol" is "voluptuous use" for "moments of meeting or musical performance".

    It is a passage of the provision of the Milan investigating judge Guido Salvini who rejected a request for house arrest presented by the defense of Zaccaria Mouhib, aka Baby Gang, the 21-year-old who ended up in prison last October, together with others, including the rapper Simba la Rue (now under house arrest), for the shooting which took place between 2 and 3 July in via di Tocqueville, near Corso Como, an area of ​​the Milanese nightlife, during which two Senegalese were shot in the legs.

    The young man's lawyer, the lawyer Niccolò Vecchioni, had asked that he be placed under house arrest at a community to "deal with problems relating to substance abuse".

For the judge, however, there are no reports on "any problematic use of psychotropic substances" by the trapper.

According to the lawyer, it is a "provision highly criticized because it denies the right to treatment to a 21-year-old and diminishes his pathological condition, assuming that the use of drugs and alcohol would be an 'ordinary' fact by a rapper, therefore that it is a situation undeserving of any therapeutic intervention".

    Furthermore, explains the lawyer, "in another passage, the judge identifies as a reason for the need to keep him in prison the fact that my client would represent a negative model for his audience, having exploited his own illegal behavior to build his success as an artist, without considering that we are discussing a substantially uncensored subject who has embarked on a serious path of critical revision of his own lifestyle".

(HANDLE).