Comedian Yassine Belattar sentenced to four months in prison for death threats

Comedian Yassine Belattar was sentenced Monday September 18 to four months’ suspended imprisonment by the Paris Criminal Court. He was prosecuted for death threats and crimes targeting several personalities from the entertainment world in 2018 and 2019, for a commercial dispute linked to the purchase of a Parisian theater. Justice considered that the facts of death threats and crimes against the screenwriter and director Kader Aoun were “established and objectified” by recordings of several telephone calls.

The 41-year-old comedian was also found guilty of malicious conversations towards another comedian, Kevin Razy. He was ordered to pay 500 euros in damages to the latter and a symbolic euro to Kader Aoun. The defendant was, however, acquitted of the death threats against David Weisbrod, production director of Kader Aoun. Yassine Belattar said he wanted “set on fire” at his offices. His four-month suspended prison sentence is accompanied by an obligation of care and a ban on meeting the victims. These prosecutions cost him his place on Radio Nova, where he had hosted the daily show “Les 30 glorieuses” since 2016.