Rapper MHD sentenced on appeal to twelve years in prison for murder – Liberation
He left the courtroom handcuffed. The rapper MHD was sentenced to Créteil on Friday to twelve years' imprisonment for the murder of a young man as part of a settlement of accounts between Rivale Cités. This condemnation of MHD, which arrived free, is identical to that pronounced at first instance by the Paris Court of Appeal, in September 2023.
One of his co-accused has also received a twelve year prison sentence, another ten years, and a last was acquitted by the Val-de-Marne Assize Court. Reading the verdict, MHD has vacillated, in shock, and crying eatenly raised in the benches that are full of the courtroom, hitherto silent. After brief hugs with his relatives, MHD, whose real name Mohamed Sylla left the handcuffed room. He and two other accused appeared free To this appeal trial, started on February 18.
Thursday, February 27, the accusation had required « Between twelve and fifteen » years of criminal imprisonment against the artist, whose lawyer had pleaded for acquittal. « »All I have to say is that I did not participate in these facts ”, said this Friday morning at the MHD bar, describing himself as « The perfect target » And claiming his innocence one last time. The convicts have ten days to appeal to the cassation.
MDH and its co -accused had to answer for a voluntary homicide occurred on the night of July 5 to 6, 2018. Loïc K., 23 years old, coming from the city of La Grange aux Belles in the northeast of Paris, was struck in the 10th arrondissement by a Mercedes, passed to tobacco and lacerated with knives by a group of a dozen individuals from a rival city, the Chaufourniers, also called the « Red City ».
The victim died a few tens of minutes after the departure of his attackers. In this file where reigns « The law of silence », Several witnesses had said that he had seen the rapper on the spot, grateful to his Puma tracksuit, mark « of which he was ambassador « At the time, and in her hair and blond beard, recalled the Advocate General on Thursday.
