The prosecution requested, Thursday, March 18, ten months in prison, with arrangement under electronic bracelet, against rapper Moha la Squale, tried for refusal to comply, contempt and rebellion.
The prosecutor also called for a six-month driver's license suspension.
The court reserved its judgment on April 15.
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"sequestration"
The Parisian rapper, aged twenty-five, was prosecuted following an arrest
"a little muscular"
, recalled at the hearing the president of the court.
During a routine roadside check, carried out in June 2020 in Paris, the police noticed that the rapper - Mohamed Bellahmed for civil status - was the subject of a search warrant for refusing to comply worsen.
The previous month, he had been surprised during a "rodeo" on a motorcycle in the streets of the capital but had managed to escape the police.
"I was afraid"
On the videos of his arrest, broadcast on social networks and presented to the court, we hear the defendant, held down by three police officers, shouting insults while the agents try to handcuff him.
These insults
“were not intended for the police.
I have never spoken badly about the police, ”
defended the frail-looking young man, hair pulled up in a bun at the top of his head and his voice hesitant.
"I recognize almost everything, but not to have insulted the police"
.
I regret having fled on a motorcycle and not having complied with the police the first time.
I respect the police.
I'm sorry for everything that happened.
Moha la Squale, during the hearing.
"I was scared,"
insisted Moha la Squale.
"But of what?"
, asks the president.
“From the police.
I did not know what was going to happen to me, “
answers the rapper, kneading his hands.
“I regret having fled on a motorcycle and not having complied with the police the first time.
I respect the police.
I'm sorry for everything that happened, ”
he said sheepishly.
When the president talks about his heavy criminal record, the young man explains:
"I grew up, I have a life, a job now."
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New album announced ... in court
The prosecutor denounced
"the feeling of omnipotence"
of the defendant with regard to society.
Moha la Squale
"has a certain talent"
, she concedes, but
"what is deplorable is that he uses this notoriety in a detrimental way"
.
“Being famous, driving in a big car and doing rap is no excuse.
It is a litigant like any other, ”
she asserted.
For the rapper's lawyer, his client is
“someone who comes from very, very far.
[...]
He does not do violent rap.
[...]
He has something to be proud of. "
Moha la Squale was one of the big revelations of the year 2018. Author of a first album, called
Bendero
, acclaimed by the public - gold record and more than 50,000 copies sold - and hailed by the critics, he was nominated for the Victoires de la musique 2019 and told the court that he was preparing a new album.
