Pending his appeal trial, the rapper MHD, sentenced at first instance to 12 years of imprisonment, was released this Thursday, indicates his lawyer Me Élise Arfi to Le
Figaro
, confirming the information from BFMTV.
Three accused acquitted
Last September, the artist, whose real name is Mohamed Sylla, was sentenced to 12 years for the murder of a young man in 2018, as part of a settling of scores between rival gangs.
He has since been incarcerated at the Fresnes penitentiary center.
Five of his co-defendants also received sentences ranging from 10 to 18 years of criminal imprisonment.
Four of them appealed, the fifth being on the run and having been tried in absentia.
Three other men, also in the dock, were acquitted.
On the night of July 5 to 6, 2018, Loïc K., a young man aged 23, was deliberately knocked down by a Mercedes in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, then beaten by around ten men and lacerated with blows. of knife.
He died of his injuries a few minutes after his attackers left.
The car was found the next day, set on fire, in a parking lot.
law of silence
At the heart of the case, a settling of scores between young people from the city of Chaufourniers, nicknamed the red city, from which the accused come, and the neighboring city of Grange aux Belles, located in the 10th and 19th arrondissements of the capital.
The rapper was implicated by several witnesses who claimed that he was at the scene of the crime, which he has always disputed.
Since 2018, the case has been subjected to the terrible law of silence which keeps these gangs of young people from the neighborhoods.
This affair clearly slowed down the career of the artist, pioneer of “afro-trap”, a mixture of hip-hop and African music, revealed in 2015 thanks to a video posted on YouTube which went viral, the starting point for a meteoric rise.