Booba against Magali Berdah: umpteenth episode.
Justice opened an investigation on September 6 for “deceptive commercial practices” against the agency of influencers Shauna Events of Magali Berdah, following a complaint formulated by the rapper Booba, we learned Monday from the Grasse public prosecutor's office (Alpes-Maritimes).
While Elie Yaffa's (alias Booba) complaint concerned both deceptive commercial practices allegedly committed by Shauna Events and an organized gang scam, the investigation was only opened, given the elements of the complaint, for the first qualification, specifies the parquet floor of Grasse.
This investigation was entrusted to the police station of Antibes, the city where Shauna Events is registered and which is under the jurisdiction of the Grasse court.
“A complex and organized scam scheme”
“He takes it to heart to denounce what seems to him to be an injustice (…) He gives himself the means so that all the light is shed on (the environment) influencers who rely on the fake: fake stars, fake products but real damages for the consumer," said Booba's lawyer, Mr. Patrick Klugman, in July.
According to the complaints, "there appears to be a complex and organized scam system, centralized by the company Shauna Events", a "system fueled by the passivity of social networks and particularly Instagram and Snapchat used by influencers to promote scams".
These complaints list several testimonials from consumers received by the rapper and claiming to have been defrauded by companies promoted by influencers linked to Shauna Events: merchandise not received and not reimbursed, non-compliant products, etc.
The war with Booba
For several months, Magali Berdah has been accusing Booba of harassment and has obtained the opening of an investigation.
This has been open to the National Pole for the Fight against Online Hate (PNLH) of the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office since June 1, in particular for death threats, harassment by means of electronic communication and public insult on the grounds of origin and of sex.
In a press release in mid-July, Magali Berdah accused Booba of targeting her on social networks for several months "by false and humiliating publications".
“Since then, I have suffered mass online harassment”, with thousands of daily messages, she confided.
She will hold a press conference on the subject this Wednesday morning.
Justice had ordered the deletion of the rapper's Instagram account ("@OKLM") as well as his Twitter account (@booba).
Booba then quickly opened a new Instagram account (“@elieyaffaofficiel”) and appealed to the judge in chambers to request the cancellation of the court decision.
The Marseille criminal court must give its deliberation in this case on October 3.
