He was thinking of flying to Morocco.
He ended up in the prison of La Santé in Paris.
Younès Latifi, better known by his stage name Mister You, was arrested on Wednesday July 20 at Orly while he was going on vacation with his 6-year-old son.
The 37-year-old Parisian rapper had just presented his identity papers when airport officials realized he was the subject of a wanted card.
The artist from Belleville was imprisoned in the prison of Health, in the district of vulnerable people, where are incarcerated in particular the personalities.
This search sheet, the rapper was obviously unaware that it had been transmitted to the police.
Explanation: in March 2021, he was sentenced by the Paris Court of Appeal to 24 months in prison with flexible terms for having promoted in February 2019 on social networks one of the biggest deal points in Île-de- France in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne).
A manageable penalty, but it is not automatic.
It is the sentencing judge who makes the decision.
"In the case of Younès, that of a father who made amends, this should not pose any difficulties", specifies one of the relatives of the rapper.
"A shame on a human level", denounces his lawyer
While the appeal in cassation is rejected, the prosecution sends a letter to the condemned to mention precisely this development.
In the absence of a response, he therefore decides to carry out the sentence.
In other words, head to prison.
But according to Mister You's lawyer, his client never received this famous letter.
Hence his departure on vacation.
“The execution of this sentence without prior summons is procedural madness, fulminates Me Robin Binsard.
It is a shame on a human level in a context where my principal saw the birth of his twins three weeks ago.
We will use all legal remedies to allow his release as soon as possible.
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A request for an adjustment of sentence was filed in the wake of the arrest.
A hearing has already been set for September 21.
Last May, Younès Latifi had already narrowly escaped prison.
His sentence of six months in prison pronounced at first instance for having tried to buy his driving license had finally resulted in appeal on a simple fine of 10,000 euros.
An artist whose clips record tens of millions of views on YouTube, Mister You notably made himself known to the general public at the end of the 2000s by releasing titles while he was on the run in a drug trafficking case.
In November 2021, he participated in the collective project bringing together more than 150 rappers from Île-de-France and Bouches-du-Rhône, at the initiative of Marseille singer Jul.
