Rapper MHD, Mohamed Sylla in civil status, will have to go before the Assize Court in 2022 for murder. Aged 27, the artist from the Paris region was released under judicial supervision in July 2020, after being suspected of having participated in a punitive expedition, which caused the death of a young man of 23 years, named Loïc. The latter would have been the victim of a violent brawl which would have broken out between dthem rival bands from the Parisian cities of Chaufourniers (19th) and Grange-aux-Belles, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris in July 2018.
According to information from Parisian, the investigating judge in charge of this investigation signed, last Wednesday, an order of indictment “sealing the referral to the assizes of nine men including MHD, in accordance with the requisitions of the Paris prosecutor’s office”. The interpreter of In Kele Nta will therefore appear with eight other people before the Assize Court in Paris. All face a 30-year prison sentence.
Presumed innocent, the prince of Afro-trap, who spent 18 months in pre-trial detention, took advantage of his release last year to release a third album, Mansa, in which he exposes himself on his experience and his passage behind bars. “THETo detention, I did not see it coming like a fire extinguisher ‘”, can we hear on any of the tracks.
Although MHD denies the charges against him, the examining magistrate explained that the rapper’s statements were, during the three years of the investigation “very evolving and in contradiction with certain elements of the file concerning its schedule the night of the facts”. During his time at the Health prison, where he caught the Covid-19, Mohamed Sylla was able to count on the help and comfort of a beauty queen, Justine Kamara, 4th runner-up of Miss France 2017, Alicia Aylies .