Rapper Naps will be tried from February 16 to 19 by a departmental criminal court, for allegedly raping a woman while she slept in the fall of 2021 in Paris, we learned on Tuesday from judicial sources. Naps, whose real name is Nabil Boukhobza, famous for the hit song “La kiffance”, denied the allegations.
The case began in October 2021 with the complaint of a young woman who, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office, had described “having spent the evening of the previous day at a company in the 9th arrondissement” of the capital, then being “invited with her friends to the rapper’s table”.
“They then followed him to his room at a hotel near the Gare de Lyon, which was slowly abandoned by the rapper’s friends.” “The young women were asleep and one of them said he was awakened by sexual intercourse that he did not consent to,” the prosecutor continued.
“With peace of mind”
A year ago, the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed the holding of the trial by validating “all the charges presented after three years of investigation”. “Nap will appear at his trial with peace of mind, with the same mindset he had during the investigation,” said his lawyer Nabil Boudi, who could not be reached on Tuesday.
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In the summer of 2024, in another case, the thirty-year-old man was charged with rape and sexual assault in Var after complaints from three young women, a fact he also denied.
The singer still has a huge following on social networks, with one million subscribers on Instagram for example. He released his tenth album in June 2024.
