The French press, in all its directions, paid great attention to the case of the trial of the Moroccan artist, Saad Lamjarred, and his 6-year prison sentence following he was convicted of assaulting and raping a young woman in a hotel room in Paris in October 2016.
The largest and most distributed French newspapers and magazines – such as “Le Monde”, “Figaro”, “Liberation”, “Le Parisien” and others – covered and commented on this issue, which turned into a rich material for all French media, and the French News Agency (AFP) continued. b) AFP covered the trial in all its exciting details day by day and transmitted its facts through its wide network to all parts of the world.
And all the French media unanimously pointed out, in the exhibition of their lengthy articles on the occasion of the trial, the fame of the artist Saad Lamjarred in the Arab world, his popularity and his stardom, stressing that most of his fans are women. The famous Parisian daily “Le Figaro” indicated that the judges’ deliberations on the day of the verdict lasted seven hours, ending with the court announcing that it was “convinced” of rape, despite the girl’s denial of the accusation once morest him.
