Domestic violence: four years in prison requested against rapper Moha La Squale

Six years of imprisonment, two of which with a two-year probationary period, were requested this Thursday against rapper Moha La Squale, who has been on trial since Tuesday in Paris for violence, kidnapping and repeated death threats against six ex-partners. The prosecutor of the 14th chamber requested that the sentence be accompanied by a ban on contact with the victims as well as obligations to compensate them and seek treatment. “His first words were intended to ensure that his audience could hear him clearly in the room. I would like him, for once, to think not of his audience, but of his victims,” ​​the magistrate snapped at the end of her indictment.

In court, the six complainants denounced a pattern of similar violence. “First, psychological violence: insults, humiliating remarks and death threats. Then physical acts: slaps, hair pulling, strangulation and suffocation with a pillow,” listed the prosecutor. “Precise statements,” supported by “material evidence and testimonies.”

A man with “two faces”

In his box, Mohamed Bellahmed maintained his denials, claiming never to have raised his hand to a woman. “For four years, these women would have maintained their statements, accepted several confrontations, with the sole and unique aim of harming him? To sink him? Because they would be jealous? Of course, that justifies this vast conspiracy,” the prosecutor added ironically. The latter regretted “the total lack of questioning of the defendant.” “Not a monster,” but a man “with two faces,” capable of “shining” then switching “in a second,” to “become this jealous, angry, capricious, impulsive, violent, paranoid person,” in a “context of excessive cannabis consumption.”

Me Fabien Guilbaut, Luna’s counsel, spoke of his “admiration” for his client. She was “able to speak out” by entering the police station, at the cost of four grueling years of proceedings. After “two years of marital hell”, she suffered cyber-harassment from “hordes of anonymous people who came to insult her on social media”, he denounced. Me Guillaume Grèze said he was “appalled”, on behalf of his client Maya, to see that “in 2024, a violent man can still claim to be the victim of women who only want his money”. Me Sarah Beaucamp, lawyer with Pierre-Eugène Burghardt d’Andrea, hopes that the defendant will understand “the seriousness of his actions and their consequences”, so that he “takes charge of them and gets treatment, before he damages other women”.

The “pressure” of celebrity

“If justice were a spectacle, I would never have seen one as sinister and sad as the decline of an artist,” regretted Me Élise Arfi, defense attorney. “If my client smiled, it was to avoid completely collapsing, to keep his head held high. When I saw the audience gathering at the doors of the hearing, I could not help but see a certain jubilation from the public, faced with this decline. It is truly the Twilight of the Idols “.