(Évry) The French rapper Kaaris, who became famous with his album Black gold in 2013 and who had distinguished himself in a publicized fight against rapper Booba in 2018, will be tried at the end of 2023 for domestic violence on his ex-girlfriend.
Posted at 12:08 p.m.
Linda P, who accuses the rapper of having assaulted her on January 19, 2021, was also summoned to the criminal court on November 23, 2023 for home invasion and minor damage, according to the competent prosecutor’s office requested by AFP on Wednesday.
The artist and his ex-girlfriend were taken into custody on Wednesday and released without judicial review.
In her complaint consulted by AFP, Linda P. accuses Kaaris of having had a sudden “evasive behavior”, causing “deep trauma” in their child. Having found him, she went to her new home on January 21, 2021, according to her lawyer Adrien Gabeaud.
Linda P. accuses Kaaris of having assaulted her in her garage by kicking and punching her while tearing out her nails, according to the complaint, which specifies that she needed “crutches and a boot maintenance for two weeks.
Kaaris’ lawyers accuse the ex-companion of having “entered” their client’s home “illegally by climbing a wall”, of having “damaged his vehicle” and of having “thrown himself on him for the ‘attack’.
The French rapper, born in Ivory Coast, found success with the release of his album Black goldwho helped popularize the style of trap, a genre of rap from the southern United States, in France.
Kaaris fell out with rapper Booba, of whom he was a protege. A quarrel that led to a fight between the two enemy brothers of French rap and their entourages at Paris Orly airport in August 2018. Kaaris and Booba were both sentenced in October 2018 to 18 months in prison suspended for these facts.