the rapper targeted by three judicial information, in particular for “cyberharassment” and “death threat”

The Paris prosecutor’s office opened three judicial investigations on June 1 targeting rapper Ellie Yaffa, better known as Booba, for “cyberharassment”, “death threat” and “doxxing” (disclosure of personal information), learned franceinfo with the Paris public prosecutor’s office.

The influencer and boss of the “Shauna Events” agency, Magali Berdah, specializing in connecting brands and television personalities, filed a complaint on May 25, 2022 against Booba. She accuses the rapper of having led a campaign of moral harassment on social networks since May 17, 2022. She announced Thursday April 20, 2023 on franceinfo to have received “more than 120,000 messages of threats or insults” in nearly a year, including “several hundred” from rapper Booba. She also had filed a complaint against Twitter for complicity in cyberbullying.

>> Berdah-Booba affair: the influencer received “more than 120,000 “threat or insult messages” in one year, “anxiety” daily

The National Pole for the Fight against Online Hate (PNLH) of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation on June 1, 2022. The Public Prosecutor’s Office also indicates that 28 people will be tried in this case, “defendants mainly born around 1990”. They are suspected of “cyberharassment”, “death threat” and “crime threat”. Booba did not respond to summonses from the Central Office for Combating Crimes Against Humanity and Hate Crimes (OCLCH) during the preliminary investigations. The rapper is now summoned by the investigating judge.

“Doxxing” (the disclosure of personal information allowing a person to be identified or located and exposing them to a direct risk of harm to person or property), “cyberstalking” and “death threats” are offenses causing the rapper to incur three years in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros.