Rapper Moha la Squale, already indicted for sexual assault and violence against ex-companions, was also indicted in July 2022 for rape, a criminal qualification, vis-à-vis another ex-companion , learned Agence France-Presse on Monday March 13 from sources familiar with the matter.
“The facts are formally disputed and are not supported by any material evidence,” said Elise Arfi, the rapper’s lawyer, placed in pre-trial detention since mid-June for non-compliance with his judicial review. This new criminal qualification implies that in the event of a trial, it could be held before the Assize Court and not before a criminal court. The penalty incurred is longer.
In the spring of 2022, on Snapchat and then on the YouTube channel “La bande à Nabilflix”, the complainant, Youssra, had denounced the actions of the rapper, Mohamed Bellahmed, his real name, with whom she had lived in Dubai for several months in 2021. Crying, she said he repeatedly ‘kicked’ her and ‘threatened her with a knife’ in the Emirati metropolis, also spoke about a rape that allegedly happened in Cannes, and shared a photo of her his face bloodied from beatings allegedly inflicted on him in Amsterdam.
Complaints from six former companions
According to a source close to the case, new hearings of witnesses must take place soon in this case. “My client is destroyed by these facts and expects from the trial that Moha La Squale can finally explain what she accuses him of, in order to be able to rebuild herself,” said Alix Dominicé, the lawyer who defends this new complainant. .
Moha La Squale was indicted in June 2021, in particular for violence by spouse, sexual assault by spouse, death threats by spouse and kidnapping of various victims. In total, according to a source familiar with the matter, he is implicated by complaints from six ex-companions, the first of which were revealed in September 2020.
“I have never, EVER raised my hand to a woman. This plot was [perpetrated] to harm me,” he defended himself in April 2021 on Twitter. This musician was one of the revelations of the year 2018, author of a first album Bendero acclaimed by the public and the critics. Movement
