The charges once morest the 37-year-old artist date back to 2018, following a meeting in a nightclub in the Var city.
Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred, who is appearing this week before the Paris assizes for aggravated rape, is also dismissed for a rape in Saint-Tropez (Var) in 2018, according to a decision of which AFP learned on Wednesday February 22.
Saad Lamjarred, 37, has been on trial since Monday before the Paris Assize Court. He is accused of having raped and hit in a hotel room a young woman he had met in a nightclub, on the sidelines of a concert planned in the capital, in 2016. He disputes the facts.
The singer, adored in Morocco and known throughout the Arab world, has also been accused of rape in New York, Casablanca and Saint-Tropez. In the latter case, he was sent back to the Var Assize Court for rape, according to a judgment of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal dating from November 2021 that Advocate General Jean-Christophe Muller, who represents the prosecution in Paris, had the proceedings paid on Tuesday evening. The date of the trial is not yet known.
Accused of forcing sex on a “paralyzed” woman
When the document was distributed at the hearing, one of Saad Lamjarred’s lawyers threw it to the ground, furious. This judgment is indeed very embarrassing for the singer, as the alleged facts resemble those judged in Paris.
In the Saint-Tropez case, the complainant told investigators that she met Saad Lamjarred in a famous nightclub in 2018. She later followed him to his hotel, only to drink a drink there. glass, she said. When Saad Lamjarred tried to kiss her and she refused, “his face has changed”she told investigators.
He allegedly then brutally pushed her onto the bed and lay on top of her, holding her wrists, undressed her and forced sexual intercourse on her. She, “paralyzed”had felt “unable to resist him physically”. Saad Lamjarred told him that this sexual intercourse was consensual, and that the young woman had “a lot” appreciated. In the phone of the singer, the investigators had found a message from another young woman speaking of violence. Heard, she had also denounced acts of rape in similar circumstances.
